Re: [openvrml-develop] openvrml in EPEL.

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 22:38 +0200, Steve Traylen wrote: 
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Braden McDaniel <br...@en...> wrote:

[snip]

> > It's my impression that RHEL6 isn't *that* far away; perhaps it would be
> > a better target for an EPEL effort?
> 
> Indeed, we will be running RHEL5 for another 3 or 4 years at least I
> expect, still
> have some RHEL3 in some places :-),:-(.

Ouch. :-/

> Will have a go with an older version, I realise GL/Graphics/ .. is a
> fast moving world.
> (For what it's worth FreeWRL, is just as hard to build.)

In OpenVRML's case, the Boost and GNOME dependencies are the most
rapidly moving ones.  If you wanted/needed to do so, you could simply
build without the GNOME-dependent parts and still have the library
available.  But Boost gets used in the core stuff; so that one's a lot
harder to get away from.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <br...@en...>