Symlink-ing into addons folder I am developing software on OS X.

One component requires blender, and it requires a custom plug-in which I have had to write, and which I have to continually modify.

Now it's a very bad workflow if I am modifying in-place, because it is outside of the project tree. So when I back up my project I'm not backing up the blender plug-in, as it is in: 

/Applications/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/2.69/scripts/addons/


What I try to do is create a symbolic link: 

ln -s /path/to/myproj/blenderplugin \
        /Applications/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/2.69/scripts/addons/pi_project


But then blender can't find it.

Does this qualify as a bug?
Rather than using a symlink you can just point to a /scripts/ directory in User Preferences > File



After setting the path be sure to Save User Settings. Doing this will let you place your scripts in the folder designated, and leave the default folder alone.

Your folder structure should look like:

scripts/
  addons/
  addons_contrib/
  startup/
  presets/


Not all sub-directories are required, but you should have at least /scripts/addons/