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

[joe]

We could create a user scripts folder if it doesn't exist, and move
all changed/different files into it.

With a "warning, moved modified system script to your user script folder".

Joe

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> target would be ok but I expect people wont use it and we end up with
> the same problem.
>
> Could be good if making release also made a zip,
> blender_$OS_$ARCH_$REVISION.zip or something like this might encourage
> casual users/devs to use this target to save them compressing
> themselves.
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Martin Poirier <theeth at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> If that's done, it should be either with a special target (scons release) or an option that defaults to false (scons BF_CLEAR=1). Of the two, I prefer the target, it's clearer that this is building for redistribution.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> --- On Wed, 2/10/10, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Bf-committers] scons/install stale files problem.
>>> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
>>> Received: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 5:15 AM
>>> A while ago I posted about blender
>>> removing scripts on installation.
>>> while possible this isn't trivial with scons. (needs to
>>> have some
>>> post-install step I think, that runs before installing)
>>>
>>> So could we remove the directory blender installs into
>>> instead?
>>> would have the effect of..
>>> rm -rf ../install/linux2
>>>
>>> On the blenderartist forum about 2.5 there have been a
>>> number of
>>> people complaining about import/export (obj/3ds/fbx).
>>> and bug reports like this one I cant redo.
>>> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=21001&group_id=9&atid=498
>>>
>>> If blender is being bundled into a directory why would you
>>> want it to
>>> contain files that are not apart of blender? this is what
>>> the user
>>> scripts directory is for.
>>> The fact that we remove scripts from svn and they still end
>>> up on
>>> graphicall builds is really bad. would like to resolve this
>>> somehow.
>>>
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>>> - Campbell
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