[Bf-committers] Blender installation, misc comments ( was: Re: Meeting notes sun may 18)

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

It is partially true what you propose. But there are also user settings  
that will go to $HOME/.blender... so that directory will be created  
anyway. Currently there are three .Bxxxx files already in the $HOME.  
Because we expect more local help files (for example python) we decided  
to move it all to a directory .blender.

Officially translation files should be installed in a system directory.  
For Linux the /usr/share/ could be the right location... but that's  
platform dependent. Other OS's have different standards, and it is not  
always correct to assume a user has (root) access to system  
directories. To avoid making it all too complex now, we better stick  
with a single installation directory ($HOME/.blender) now.

I rather have people working now on end-user functionality, something  
that can be simply tested and supported, than conforming too much to  
local OS dependent conventions.

-Ton-


On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 23:04 Europe/Amsterdam, Christian Plessl  
wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I have noticed, that the automake/autoconf build framework neither  
> installes
> the fonts/locales to the .blender directory, nor does it install file  
> for
> the plugin support. As far as I understand, this is because the
> autoconf/make framework does not yet provide a Makefile corresponding  
> to
> the NaN Makefile in the release directory.
>
> Is anybody working on this so far?
>
> The Meeting notes from the last IRC meeting discuss the future  
> installation
> procedure for blender, see quote below:
>
>> Installation procedure
>> - all blender help files will move to @HOME/.blender in the next
>> release.
>> - double-clicking a .blend file in windows and osx gives an error
>> (.Blanguages not found). Has to be solved... the platform managers  
>> look
>> at this.
>> - for windows, the usage of Registries will be evaluated. apheX
>> coordinates.
>
> Does this mean, that in future all blender support files, e.g. fonts,  
> help
> files, translations need to be installed in $HOME/.blender? Im not  
> sure,
> whether this is a good idea, at least for the Linux plattform.
>
> I do understand the reasoning behind this, a user should be able to  
> install
> blender withouth having root access to the machine. I agree, that this  
> is
> desirable, but relying on files in $HOME/.blender only seems not the  
> best
> solution to me.
>
> I would suggest to install system-wide defaults in /usr/share/blender  
> but
> allow to override these systemwide configurations local configurations  
> in a
> $HOME/.blender directory. This is what most applications (at least on  
> the
> Linux plattform) do.
>
> Regards,
>  Christian
>
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