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

[joe]

I wasn't implying we should keep old scripts around.  Simply that you
shouldn't play around so freely with the behavior of build systems
like this, at least not without thorough testing :)

IMHO it should not use the $HOME directory unless your explicitly
making a release package.

Joe

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is whats happening on linux/unix for years with blender 2.4x, if
> ~/.blender is defined, maybe we switch to ~/blender-2.5.x in future,
> this has been discussed in other posts.
>
> They can be made to co-exist pretty easy I think, just make
> "$PWD/.blender" override "$HOME/.blender"
>
> I explained in the first post the problems with keeping old scripts around.
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:08 AM, joe <joeedh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That would be bad, as it'd make different branches share the same
>> .blender folder.
>>
>> Why are you messing with this?
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Update: only remove the scripts dir now, not the entire install
>>> folder, apparently gives troubles on windows,
>>> We should still look into having a blender home on windows that isnt
>>> related to the install dir, and making it usable (create on startup if
>>> its not there for instance).
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:51 AM, joe <joeedh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 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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