That would be bad, as it'd make different branches share the same .blender folder.
Why are you messing with this? Joe On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > Update: only remove the scripts dir now, not the entire install > folder, apparently gives troubles on windows, > We should still look into having a blender home on windows that isnt > related to the install dir, and making it usable (create on startup if > its not there for instance). > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:51 AM, joe <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 fixing the problem of outdated scripts, and getting loading scripts 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 >> > > > > -- > - 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
