The install folder scons spits out is supposed to create/use a .blender folder in the same folder.
Joe On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > to conclude this tedious topic I better give an update for those who > dont read the logs. > Discussed this with Brect (over lunch) and Martin (over IRC) and Both > agree this is best in the long run. > > Now the default scons behavior is to remove the install dir each time > so it always contains an up to date build, however Aligorith uses > scons for development on windows, which needs DLL's etc, so copying > each time isnt nice. > > For this case I added WITHOUT_BF_OVERWRITE_INSTALL > > This also brought up the issue that on windows there isnt a ~/.blender > directory thats easy to access/create (I'm not clear on the details). > Would be good to have a home dir on windows too but thats another > topic. > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Brecht Van Lommel <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't think we should try to support people installing scripts there >> and try to make the build systems clever about this. These really are >> just standard building rules, don't work in directories or files that >> are autogenerated by the build system because any changes will get >> overwritten. If anyone wants to make this kind of unsupported usage >> more convenient I guess they can, but more important in my opinion is >> fixing the problem of outdated scripts, and getting loading scripts >> from the user directory to work properly. >> >> Loading from the user directory seems to be suboptimal on Windows >> right now, the expected directory is this. >> C:\Documents and Settings\User\.blender\scripts >> >> That can be changed to this, and the folder can be created >> automatically on startup to make things easier. >> C:\Documents and Settings\User\Blender Foundation\Blender\scripts >> >> Brecht. >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > > > > -- > - Campbell > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
