[Bf-committers] Installation/file paths

Bassam Kurdali bkurdali at freefactory.org
Tue May 11 14:48:02 CEST 2010


My only suggestion is that quit.blend and files currently saved in /tmp
should just be saved in the same folder as the blend file.
99% of the time you have to copy them there from commandline/external
file manager because saving to /tmp (or elsewhere) just breaks all
external references. (I guess there is a slight problem if the user
already has a file called quit.blend, but it can be solved I think by
picking in that case a different name like quit.blend1 or always using a
slightly different extension ( like quit.quitblend)
No big deal though, at least things don't get worse :)
cheers
Bassam

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:16 +1000, Matt Ebb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My main task this week is to get the issue of installation and file paths under control, hopefully before the beta release, and definitely before the stable release.
> 
> Several differing proposals have been made for this in the past, with no clear consensus and agreement, and there are several messy competing systems in Blender's source right now which need to be cleaned. I've read over the various proposals, and tried to amalgamate something that unifies the ideas and meets all the requirements in each.
> 
> The focus here is on a short-term, achievable target of clearing up installation and finding resource file paths. Other things such as UNC paths, unicode/international file access, wrapping FILE pointers etc can be considered separate issues, and looked at after a stable release - this is specifically regarding retrieving system/user data paths.
> 
> Anyway, my proposal is here:
> 
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Installation/Proposal
> 
> I hope that this enough to quickly agree on and get moving.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Matt
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