cmake-based Windows build pipe

[julik]

I think that's a go. What we need to have a look at is the following

• currently the cmakes have qite a bit of biolerplate for OSX for example, which you won't need
• we need more precise instructions on bullding the source code. Maybe we should have a separate Markdown file for that with instructions split per OS.

[sebastianelsner]

Just the other day I read this article:
http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/08/16/open-sourcing-a-python-project-the-right-way/

I found it very helpful in terms of project structure. We could also
move the binaries from the repo to githubs own download section.

On 11/21/2013 11:57 PM, Julik Tarkhanov wrote:

I think that's a go. What we need to have a look at is the following

• currently the cmakes have qite a bit of biolerplate for OSX for
  example, which you won't need
• we need more precise instructions on bullding the source code.
  Maybe we should have a separate Markdown file for that with
  instructions split per OS.

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[julik]

The thing is, Github used to have downloads but they removed it. This meant that the releases went bust for people having links to the downloads page. Also I've noticed that the "download ZIP" button was getting used with people expecting that they will also get the binaries, while in fact they were only getting a repo snapshot. Do we trust the new "Releases" feature on Github enough to use it? https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
Considering that we have a Python bootstrap, a release download will be the same thing as a .zip of the repo anyway - because the bootstrapper assumes a certain directory structure.

Re. the python guidelines - the only thing we currently don't execute is git-flow but I consider it a bit overkill if you got a small project. Besides of that:

• Travis-CI and autotests - a noble goal, but Travis will never work
• testing - we could setup some pipeline that would rely on CLI-rendering a script and diff-comparing the outputs, but this falls far short of the QA these plugins need, so I rather not go that way
• building - we cannot rely on anything like setuptools
• directory structure - there is some leeway in there but I need to have init.py and menu.py in the root to allow for quick bootstrapping.

[sebastianelsner]

Github releases look ok and easy to use. The other way would be to go
through Nukepedia and the way they provide plug-ins. Frank is building a
build-in client for nuke (https://github.com/frueter/NKPD) maybe he has
a way to access binaries, too.

Re. guidelines: You are completely right, that this is overkill for this
project (and most other small to midsize). I was only referring to the
structure template, which could be useful for us.

On 11/22/2013 10:40 AM, Julik Tarkhanov wrote:

The thing is, Github used to have downloads but they removed it. This
meant that the releases went bust for people having links to the
downloads page. Also I've noticed that the "download ZIP" button was
getting used with people expecting that they will also get the
binaries, while in fact they were only getting a repo snapshot. Do we
trust the new "Releases" feature on Github enough to use it?
https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
Considering that we have a Python bootstrap, a release download will
be the same thing as a .zip of the repo anyway - because the
bootstrapper assumes a certain directory structure.

Re. the python guidelines - the only thing we currently don't execute
is git-flow but I consider it a bit overkill if you got a small
project. Besides of that:

• Travis-CI and autotests - a noble goal, but Travis will never work
• testing - we could setup some pipeline that would rely on
  CLI-rendering a script and diff-comparing the outputs, but this
  falls far short of the QA these plugins need, so I rather not go
  that way
• building - we cannot rely on anything like setuptools
• directory structure - there is some leeway in there but I need to
  have |init.py| and |menu.py| in the root to allow for quick
  bootstrapping.

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[julik]

Nukepedia is wonderful, but back in the day I have dismissed it because it didn't have a way to push releases automatically. If I wanted to release a new version I had to go in and wait for a few minutes for these awful forms to load, then I had to make a separate upload for every binary, there was no semantic versioning, no good filtering per Nuke version and platform and so on - it was a really poor experience overall. I wonder whether that has improved lately. Re. github releases - let's.

[julik]

Good stuff! I've merged the build instructions - can you contain the cmake setup to one directory and add your build instructions to BUILD_INSTRUCTIONS.md ?

[sebastianelsner]

You mean putting the cmake files into a separate directory? cmake will
not work any more then. I needs to be in the source directory. I have
never seen a cmake project with the files in a separate directory. I am
also working on cmake linux support, mainly just for learning how its
done there. Will do for the instructions.

On 11/27/2013 11:11 AM, Julik Tarkhanov wrote:

Good stuff! I've merged the build instructions - can you contain the
cmake setup to one directory and add your build instructions to
|BUILD_INSTRUCTIONS.md| ?

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[julik]

If it has to be in the same dir it has to ;-)

On 27 Nov 2013, at 11:18, sebastianelsner [email protected] wrote:

You mean putting the cmake files into a separate directory? cmake will
not work any more then. I needs to be in the source directory. I have
never seen a cmake project with the files in a separate directory. I am
also working on cmake linux support, mainly just for learning how its
done there. Will do for the instructions.

Julik Tarkhanov
[email protected]

[julik]

@sebastianelsner still up to it? I've even prepared a file where we can put out build instructions per platform...

[sebastianelsner]

Will get to it in the next two holiday weeks, stay tuned.

[sebastianelsner]

Quick update: I have been struggling with getting my linux build system up and running. I am using Linux Mint 16 on my private computer, but getting gcc412 to build seems to need lots of fixes. I will try with a centos 5.4 VM as a buildhost now.

[julik]

@sebastianelsner building on Ubuntu is an issue for both Maya and Nuke plugins. Personally I gave up trying.

[julik]

@sebastianelsner by the way, a very happy 2014 to you sir!

[sebastianelsner]

please see the cmake branch. Linux and windows cmake build is now working using https://github.com/nerdvegas/vfxcmake I recently discovered.
The only thing not implemented is OSX support (maybe you can do that) and support for installing (i.e. make install: would copy all plugins to .nuke). I should also remove the linux makefile later on as well as write a short build help. For now you can merge and release the binary plugins I added. Please thest the Linux plugins, because I do not have license on that machine.