Ok, thanks for the clarification. Ken
On 05/11/2010 09:08 AM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm proposing to look for the folder in the same directory as the > executable first, and if that doesn't exist, in the system location > (/usr/share/blender). This means that /usr/bin/datafiles would be used > if it was there, but that's an unintentional side effect and the > folder should be installed in /usr/share/blender when blender is > installed in /usr/bin/blender. This just also covers the case of > running blender from an unpacked archive, without using a wrapper > script to find the right folder. > > Brecht. > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Ken Hughes<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Before I comment, let me be sure I understand what's being proposed: >> >> On Unix, the blender executable would most likely be /usr/bin/blender. >> So the proposal is to have a /usr/bin/datafiles folder for the system >> data files? If so, I don't think that's a good idea, for Unix anyway. >> You don't expect to find any data in /usr/bin. >> >> Ken >> >> On 05/11/2010 02:37 AM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Rob M<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I agree with most of this but why can't the default location for the system >>>> data files be in the datafiles sub directory of the directory where the >>>> blender executable resides? >>>> >>>> >>> Proposal looks fine to me, but I agree with this. We can avoid a >>> wrapper script, making it use the folder in the same directory doesn't >>> conflict, so it could just look for a "datafiles" in the same folder >>> first. >>> >>> Brecht. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
