Blender on windows already supports having the .blender folder in different locations outside of the install folder, regardless of the build engine used.
That's not a new thing and not a big issue. Martin --- On Sat, 2/13/10, joe <[email protected]> wrote: > From: joe <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] scons/install stale files problem. > To: "bf-blender developers" <[email protected]> > Received: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 6:21 PM > 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 > __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! 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