Thanks for those of you answered the poll. There's definitely enough interest to kick off the working group. As you all probably realised, I made an error in my mental timezone juggling between

Looking at the version of Boost that's being pulled in (1.58), that's actually older than the the version being specified by VFX Reference Platform for 2017 which is 1.61

Boost in general and boost python in particular complicates build environments, maintenance, and compiler migrations. I would like to +1 the suggestion of a move to pybind11. This might be an

As discussed at the last TAC meeting, we'll set up a working group to progress this, and I'd like to encourage involvement from the community. For pragmatic reasons, I'll propose the same timeslot as

It's never good to see a broken build, but in this case what serendipity! It provides the perfect motivation for the cmake tools project which Larry has proposed on the tac mailing list, and

Agreed about pybind11. I can't recommend it strongly enough. Kimball did a good job of explaining what I was getting at, but I'll make a pitch on the TAC list in a new thread as well. -- lg -- Larry

switch to pybind11? ;-P This is what Larry was talking about the last meeting, and in a much more concrete manner than I had babbled about in our first meeting. I think it is a great idea to make a

Hi Everyone, Since the move of OpenVDB to ASWF. The Jenkins build is now broken due to CMake not able to find the python boost library, you can see the error message

Hi Dan, Thanks for the supportive feedback! We have established vendor-approved mechanisms to automate download and build for the Maya SDK and for Houdini Apprentice which additionally allows for

Hi Daniel, Thanks for sending this around, this is a great overview. I know vendor dependencies were discussed in a past meeting, but skimming the meeting notes, I can't seem to find the outcome of

Hello everyone, As we start to adopt projects into the ASWF, I would like to turn attention to the CI setup and especially the way that project dependencies are built and managed. There have been

ASWF Community: Today, the Academy Software Foundation announced four new members: Sony Pictures Entertainment/Sony Pictures Imageworks as a Premier member, Warner Bros. as a General Member, and

And past TAC meeting minutes are here: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/tree/master/meetings -- Cary Phillips | R&D Supervisor | ILM | San Francisco

Thanks for the answers Rob! Cheers!

Thank you for your interest. Great questions. 1) No, or at least not yet. The VES is doing an excellent job running the VFX Platform and there are a number of other projects that the group has

I am excited to seen the initiative by the community to push towards open source. Congratulations to all the folks involved in setting up ASWF! Two questions I have! * Going forward, VFX

Thanks! I was still grepping to find the VS2010 reference. The root Readme.md is correct. -- -------------------------------- Nick Porcino @meshula Virtual and augmented production, interactive

I'll update the README.-- Cary Phillips | R&D Supervisor | ILM | San Francisco

Oh yeah that makes sense, I should have thought of that. I copied what was in README and didn't think to try changing the value. I got further now with the updated generator. Will report more on

Hi there, the script I see here: https://jenkins.aswf.io/sandbox/job/openexr-win64-master/configure seems to be incorrectly configured to run a very old Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010. -G "Visual