OpenEXR 3.0 Imath library

[Halla Rempt]

On Monday, 12 April 2021 14:48:54 CEST Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> In FreeBSD ports -- not usually the forefront and bleeding edge of chasing 
> software releases, although we track KDE things pretty closely -- OpenEXR has 
> been updated to 3.0, which *apparently* splits off a new library called Imath, 
> and messes around some other bits.
> 
> There's now a patch in our packaging against ECM:
> 
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/devel/kf5-extra-cmake-modules/files/patch-find-modules_FindOpenEXR.cmake
> 
> that in turn *seems* to do the right thing, al least packages build. The patch 
> itself doesn't look all that right to me, though, and suffers from backwards-
> incompatibility. So I'm sending a heads-up to -devel and to krita (I hope) 
> that there is some rumbling going on around OpenEXR releases and there may 
> need to be changes in ECM, kimageformats, krita and kio-extra's -- those 
> patches have already landed downstream.
> 
> I've asked the downstream patch author to try upstreaming these bits, too.

>From what I hear in the VFX platform discussions, OpenEXR 3 (and OpenColorIO 2) are such big updates that applications need to be ported. We'll probably be looking into that in later this year, after we release Krita 5.


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