[Bf-committers] Installation/file paths

[Ken Hughes]

Using gcc as an example (since it's possible to have multiple versions 
installed):

On Ubuntu at least, they are called /usr/bin/gcc-4.1, /usr/bin/gcc-4.2, 
etc., with a symbolic link /usr/bin/gcc to one of the versions.  I 
assume other Unix variants do something similar?

Ken

On 05/11/2010 08:10 AM, Roger Wickes wrote:
> i would hope the blender executable is in usr/bin/blender/2.52
> so that we can have multiple versions of blender installed (2.49, 2.52, svn)
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> ________________________________
> From: Ken Hughes<khughes at pacific.edu>
> To: bf-blender developers<bf-committers at blender.org>
> Sent: Tue, May 11, 2010 11:07:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Installation/file paths
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> Before I comment, let me be sure I understand what's being proposed:
>
> On Unix, the blender executable would most likely be /usr/bin/blender.
> So the proposal is to have a /usr/bin/datafiles folder for the system
> data files?  If so, I don't think that's a good idea, for Unix anyway.
> You don't expect to find any data in /usr/bin.
>
> Ken
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> On 05/11/2010 02:37 AM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Rob M<rob.nospam at 4mation.co.uk>   wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> I agree with most of this but why can't the default location for the system
>>> data files be in the datafiles sub directory of the directory where the
>>> blender executable resides?
>>>
>>>        
>> Proposal looks fine to me, but I agree with this. We can avoid a
>> wrapper script, making it use the folder in the same directory doesn't
>> conflict, so it could just look for a "datafiles" in the same folder
>> first.
>>
>> Brecht.
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