Status of update to OpenEXR-1.4.x

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> 
>>> The upgrade to 1.4.x went well (no problems reported).  Is there 
>>> interest in backporting this to fc5 as well?
>>
>> Thank you for the clarification.
> 
> After a bit more digging and research, it's not clear that upstream will 
> support the 1.2.x codebase (much) anymore, and since the performance 
> improvements in 1.4.x (multithreading) are compelling, I'll plan on 
> pushing an fc5 update to OpenEXR-1.4.x first thing Thu Nov 16 morning.

Postponed, due to FedoraSummit hangover and subsequent cvs offline'age. 
  Will update as soon as cvs(and buildsystem) is happy again.

-- Rex