My only suggestion is that quit.blend and files currently saved in /tmp should just be saved in the same folder as the blend file. 99% of the time you have to copy them there from commandline/external file manager because saving to /tmp (or elsewhere) just breaks all external references. (I guess there is a slight problem if the user already has a file called quit.blend, but it can be solved I think by picking in that case a different name like quit.blend1 or always using a slightly different extension ( like quit.quitblend) No big deal though, at least things don't get worse :) cheers Bassam
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:16 +1000, Matt Ebb wrote: > Hi, > > My main task this week is to get the issue of installation and file paths > under control, hopefully before the beta release, and definitely before the > stable release. > > Several differing proposals have been made for this in the past, with no > clear consensus and agreement, and there are several messy competing systems > in Blender's source right now which need to be cleaned. I've read over the > various proposals, and tried to amalgamate something that unifies the ideas > and meets all the requirements in each. > > The focus here is on a short-term, achievable target of clearing up > installation and finding resource file paths. Other things such as UNC paths, > unicode/international file access, wrapping FILE pointers etc can be > considered separate issues, and looked at after a stable release - this is > specifically regarding retrieving system/user data paths. > > Anyway, my proposal is here: > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Installation/Proposal > > I hope that this enough to quickly agree on and get moving. > > cheers, > > Matt > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- PGP public key http://freefac.org/misc/public.key _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
