[Bf-committers] Fix for #913 "inconsistent .B.blend loading/saving"

[Simon Clitherow]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the patch. 

The plan was to remove the inconsistant saving of .B.blend across the 
different windows versions (Win9x has no concept of profile dirs, etc).
This change was then further (and perhaps, unduly) complicated by a 
"transition period" - allowing people to still read their existing 
settings but saving defaults goes to ~/.blender and from then on, they
are read from there. This is the reason for all the #ifdefs dotted 
around the place, which will later be removed.

As for HOME/.blender vs. HOME, I'm entirely happy to use HOME (which
is the location of the blender.exe and NOT the system var!), however, I 
believe doing so caused problems with FTFont and the infamous 
".blanguages not found" error, but I can't fully recall...

My argument is that since ~/.blender is now becoming more and more
important (already we've seen this used for translation files, and 
now python scripts), it seemed the logical place for all blender's 
external dependancies (excluding *.dlls, of course! :)).

Still, the topic of 'Installation' and directory structure is 
something we have planned to discuss more after the 2.32 release, so 
your comments and suggestions are very welcome.

In the meantime, I'll look over your patch and the code again and see 
what can be done.

Cheers,

Simon

At 26-01-2004, 00:18:00 Bill Baxter wrote:

>
>In the long term I question why you would *want* to make only Windows 
>load and save things from ~/.blender?  If it's good for Windows why not 
>do that for all platforms, and avoid adding all those ifdefs?
>
>--bb