. . .And you totally and completely missed my point :) Joe
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Martin Poirier <the...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 <joe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: joe <joe...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] scons/install stale files problem. >> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers@blender.org> >> 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 $HOME directory unless your >> explicitly >> making a release package. >> >> Joe >> >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasma...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > This is whats happening on linux/unix for years with >> blender 2.4x, if >> > ~/.blender is defined, maybe we switch to >> ~/blender-2.5.x in future, >> > this has been discussed in other posts. >> > >> > They can be made to co-exist pretty easy I think, just >> make >> > "$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 <joe...@gmail.com> >> 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 >> <ideasma...@gmail.com> >> 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 <joe...@gmail.com> >> 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 <ideasma...@gmail.com> >> 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 <bre...@blender.org> >> 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 >> >>>>>> Bf-committers@blender.org >> >>>>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> >>>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> -- >> >>>>> - Campbell >> >>>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>> Bf-committers mailing list >> >>>>> Bf-committers@blender.org >> >>>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> >>>>> >> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >>>> Bf-committers mailing list >> >>>> Bf-committers@blender.org >> >>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> - Campbell >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Bf-committers mailing list >> >>> Bf-committers@blender.org >> >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Bf-committers mailing list >> >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > - Campbell >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Bf-committers mailing list >> > Bf-committers@blender.org >> > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! 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