[Bf-committers] scons/install stale files problem.

[joe]

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 <ideasman42 at 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 <brecht at 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 fixing the problem of outdated scripts, and getting loading scripts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.
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