Re: Blender export backend missing

[Théo Maxime Tyburn]

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:

> Possible reasons (I don't know which apply here and which are actually
> true):
>
>   * When blender was first packaged, that configuration flag did not
>     exist.
>   * Likewise, but the 'alembic' package was not yet packaged in Guix.
>   * The original package author did not notice the WITH_ALEMBIC option.
>   * The original package author noticed the option but didn't need
>     'alembic' and kept things simple for now.
>   * 'alembic' has a large closure size

Makes sense.

> You'll have to add alembic to the 'inputs' of blender and add
> WITH_ALEMBIC to the #:configure-flags of 'blender'.  I don't expect
> any problems but hard to tell in advance.

I see, that’s encouraging, I’ll try it out!