Sorry, I wasn't clear. I was responding to Brecht's and Rob's alternative, not to Matt's original proposal.
Ken On 05/11/2010 08:18 AM, Diego B wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Ken Hughes<khug...@pacific.edu> 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. >> > The proposal say: > > /usr/share/blender/2.52/datafiles > > and > > ~/.blender/2.52/datafiles > > The datafiles in the same folder that blender is only if you don't > want install Blender, download the file, unpack and run from the same > directory, so it's all the files there (or that is what I understand > from Brecht) > > anyway... is this right ? Matt ? > > >> Ken >> >> On 05/11/2010 02:37 AM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Rob M<rob.nos...@4mation.co.uk> 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 >>> 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