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 runn

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 here: https://jenkins.aswf.io/job/

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 re

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 G

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 demonstra

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

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 excellen

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 (https://www.vfxplatform.com/

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 Austra

Hi Dan, I don't think it's overly ambitious to address a number of these points, as most will be common to ASWF projects and CI. Specifically: 1) The VFX Reference Platform build environment and depen

Hi, I've been setting up CentOS-7-based VFX Platform docker images there: https://github.com/AnimalLogic/docker-usd/blob/master/linux/centos7/vfx-lite-2018/Dockerfile It's actually quite a nice way to

Packer is very similar in purpose to a Dockerfile. It's purpose is to create a reusable VM image, similar to how Dockerfile's purpose is to create a reusable container image. The reason we use Packer

Hi, We're not using docker, but we're doing something conceptually similar to Aloys to set up our platforms. We build the compiler, the VFX Platform libraries, and all their dependencies into unique d

All, I'd love Foundry to be involved in this - we've spend some time on this sort of problem across all three operating systems this year, and have had some good results we'd be happy to share (though

I'm not sure how these dependencies are used within a build, but It's fairly easy to switch builders in our CI cloud. If single builds are going to run on a very specific configuration of the platform

Hi Thanh, I've been reading a bit more about Packer and indeed it should be a fairly easy thing to setup a docker image that matches the VFX platform. One reason I've been angling towards Docker is th

As an aside, VFX Platform is, as they have repeated many times, not a list of endorsed or fundamental packages, but rather an agreement of versions for particular packages that have been historically

Hi, Where can I find all the meeting minutes of the 'ASWF CI Infrastructure' Group? Thanks, Patrick

There's a "tac" GitHub project at: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac More specifically you'll find minutes for the CI working group at: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/

ASWF Community: We are very excited to share that OpenColorIO has been approved as the second Academy Software Foundation project. The press release is available here: https://www.aswf.io/ocio-joins-a