On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 18:30:18 GMT, Gary Willoughby wrote:
When building is it possible to copy a folder to the output destination?
I have a folder called 'dist/library/..' in a dependency and when i build i need to copy the whole folder to my project. I can copy files successfully using the 'copyFiles' command but how to copy whole folders? Here's my package.json:
{
"name": "tcltk", "description": "Bindings to Tcl/Tk for the D programming language", "homepage": "https://github.com/nomad-software/tcltk", "authors": ["Gary Willoughby"], "copyright": "Copyright (c) 2014 Gary Willoughby", "license": "MIT", "libs-posix": ["tcl", "tk"], "sourceFiles-windows-x86-dmd": ["lib/windows/x86/omf/tcl86t.lib", "lib/windows/x86/omf/tk86t.lib"], "sourceFiles-windows-x86-ldc": ["lib/windows/x86/coff/tcl86t.lib", "lib/windows/x86/coff/tk86t.lib"], "sourceFiles-windows-x86-gnu": ["lib/windows/x86/coff/tcl86t.lib", "lib/windows/x86/coff/tk86t.lib"], "sourceFiles-windows-x86_64": ["lib/windows/x86_64/coff/tcl86t.lib", "lib/windows/x86_64/coff/tk86t.lib"], "copyFiles-windows-x86": ["dist/library", "dist/x86/tcl86t.dll", "dist/x86/tk86t.dll"], "copyFiles-windows-x86_64": ["dist/library", "dist/x86_64/tcl86t.dll", "dist/x86_64/tk86t.dll"], "excludedSourceFiles": [ "source/c/*", ], "dependencies": { "x11": "~master" }, "subConfigurations": { "x11": "tcltk-import" },}
Here's the error:
Copying files...
Failed to copy to C:\Users\gary\Desktop\tkd\library
Currently copyFiles is not intended to handle directories. Although that would be easy to add, the semantics would be slightly ambiguous: Should the folder be copied or just its contents?
But the real issue is that copyFiles is really just a temporary solution. What is really needed is a mechanism that allows to specify the output folder, possibly with some advanced support for system standard directories.