Using a non-standard engine path is tedious with csproj references about openramodsdk HOT 6 CLOSED

In fact SLNs do not have direct access to environment variables so project paths must be hardcoded (or changed locally only to be undone before committing/pushing, which is a PITA and extra work).

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What are your expectations here, and what is the goal of this issue?

Like you say, it is not technically feasible to support per-user engine paths, and I don't understand the motivation for wanting these. The ModSDK is designed around the idea of every mod being self contained, and having an external engine working directory which is shared across multiple projects (which is the only use case I can think for this?) explicitly conflicts with that design, even if it were technically possible.

Would the best fix here be to write some documentation explaining this philosophy?

The Mod SDK itself is the tool that provides the exact same file structure, and the configuration flag for changing that is prefixed with

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If supporting external engines is explicitly a non-goal then what do users gain from the ENGINE_DIRECTORY being customizable?

The mod sdk is not something I can invoke that will stub files, change dependency versions, package installers. It is currently a collection of scripts (shell, makefile, powershell, etc). I've discussed a tool to unify all of this on IRC a couple of times (as I truly believe that is a better approach than users manually invoking scripts [which lends them to invoking scripts they shouldn't be touching]).

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A "fix" for this could be adding a note above the ENGINE_DIRECTORY setting stating that external-to-the-project paths are not supported.

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If supporting external engines is explicitly a non-goal then what do users gain from the ENGINE_DIRECTORY being customizable?

Not much, but that was never the goal. The variable is there for documentation, so that the user can see and understand what is going on behind the scenes, and to avoid hardcoding magic paths in 42 (and counting) other places.

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Added f605793 as suggested above and requested in IRC.

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