Re: [Sc-devel] [linux] configurable user directory?

[nescivi <nescivi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hiho,

that should be another directory...
this one gets compiled into both the server and the lang.

I think for what you want is what the .sclang.cfg is for...
that still works, and I think it should work as well on OSX...

sincerely,
marije

On Wednesday 05 December 2007 18:11:13 James Harkins wrote:
> I would like to see this as a launch time preference, rather than a
> compile time configuration. Sometimes we need to test against
> different configurations of extensions, and the only way to do it
> right now is to monkey around in the support directory manually.
>
> hjh
>
> On Dec 4, 2007 10:26 AM, nescivi <nescivi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hiho,
> >
> > There have been some complaints that the user directory on Linux:
> > ~/share/SuperCollider
> >
> > is not standard, and that some people would like to make it configurable.
> >
> > It would be possible to make it configurable with an argument upon
> > building with scons, such as:
> >
> > scons USERDIR=.SuperCollider/
> >
> > Then the user app support dir would be:
> >
> > ~/.SuperCollider/
> >
> > would this be an acceptable solution?
> > The default would still be the old version.
> >
> >
> > Any votes against making this configurable?
> >
> > The only problem I could see is that it might be harder to track down
> > problems when users post them on the list.
> >
> > Otherwise, I will go ahead and add this feature.