[Bf-committers] Installation/file paths

[Ken Hughes]

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

Ken

On 05/11/2010 09:08 AM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm proposing to look for the folder in the same directory as the
> executable first, and if that doesn't exist, in the system location
> (/usr/share/blender). This means that /usr/bin/datafiles would be used
> if it was there, but that's an unintentional side effect and the
> folder should be installed in /usr/share/blender when blender is
> installed in /usr/bin/blender. This just also covers the case of
> running blender from an unpacked archive, without using a wrapper
> script to find the right folder.
>
> Brecht.
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Ken Hughes<khughes at pacific.edu>  wrote:
>    
>> 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
>>
>> 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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