On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 3:32 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I had a hard time trying to describe what I'm talking about, perhaps there's actually a term for it, but as I go through all the dependencies of OpenEXR I wanted to know if this is a problem or not which I think is best shown by example: > > So part of the dependency chain for blender is: > Blender > ---> OpenEXR > ---> OpenVDB > ---> OpenEXR > > So is it OK for OpenVDB to link against OpenEXR 2.x (openexr2) while Blender links with OpenEXR 3.x? Or does the whole dependency stack need to be upgraded at one time? > Generally, they need to be upgraded together because if they're all operating in one process, you can have program code from OpenEXR 2 and OpenEXR 3 colliding in the Blender process and causing things to go haywire. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
