Also look into Maya Modules which is as close to a plugin directory /
package as you're probably going to get.

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On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Sandy Sutherland <sandy.mailli...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi Darren,
>
> You can launch Maya with a set of environment variables set before launch,
> as Andy mentioned you can use Rez or we are using a modified version of
> Ecosystem here.
>
> Starting from this page, you can see which ones you might need to set.
>
> https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/
> cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Maya/files/GUID-925EB3B5-1839-45ED-AA2E-
> 3184E3A45AC7-htm.html
>
> You could also write a small python script that sets these, then launches
> Maya using Popen or similar.
>
> Cheers
>
> Sandy
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Darren Macpherson <darren...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Its been awhile since I was around these parts. I know this has been
>> covered a fair amount and I have been going through previous posts and
>> general looking around on line, so sorry if there's a bit of overlap and
>> noise.
>>
>> We're looking to give Maya a try on a shot with a current project. I was
>> hoping some of you might have some advice when it comes to working with
>> maya on a project server. Right now my biggest question is how people are
>> structuring there maya workflow when it comes to plugins or setting up the
>> equivalent of a workgroup for maya.
>>
>> We would prefer to work with absolute paths (//servername/projects/) if
>> possible. Currently we create a workgroup per project in the relevant
>> project folder. That way the workgroup for that project looks at all the
>> relevant addons, keeps the correct addon version for the project and helps
>> with keeping everything consolidated when the project is backed up. Has
>> anyone done something similar with maya where a project only points to the
>> plugins that are relevant to the project?
>>
>> I might have a few more questions that I think of as I go along but any
>> advice or help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Darren
>>
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