I wasn't implying we should keep old scripts around. Simply that you shouldn't play around so freely with the behavior of build systems like this, at least not without thorough testing :)
IMHO it should not use the $HOME directory unless your explicitly making a release package. Joe On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > This is whats happening on linux/unix for years with blender 2.4x, if > ~/.blender is defined, maybe we switch to ~/blender-2.5.x in future, > this has been discussed in other posts. > > They can be made to co-exist pretty easy I think, just make > "$PWD/.blender" override "$HOME/.blender" > > I explained in the first post the problems with keeping old scripts around. > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:08 AM, joe <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> > > > > -- > - 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
