Make .jamrc location more flexible

[pieterv]

It would be nice if the .jamrc file could be put inside your project directory or your home directory.

Maybe when making a jam call it should look into the current directory for the .jamrc file and if not found recursively look into the parent directories until the file is found or defaults used.

This would be similar to how grunt.js works for finding it's grunt config files.

[ghost]

It's already there in lib/jamrc.js in exports.PATHS.

This solves this problem (maybe it should be there by default):

exports.PATHS = [
    env.home + '/.jamrc',
    process.cwd() + '/.jamrc' //or just './.jamrc'
];

Jam is not looking into parent directories now, though.

[pieterv]

Doesn't look like its in lib/jamrc.js anymore, this would be helpful though.

I think recursively looking in parent directories would be ideal, but this is a good first step if it's easy enough to implement.

[shyiko]

Voting +1. It would be great to have behavior like this by default.

[pieterv]

I dont think this functionality is necessary now that Jam is using the package.json file to set project specific properties like packageDir. My experience with 0.2.x this seems to be working very well so far.

Feel free to close the issue.

[caolan]

@pieter-vanderwerff glad the new system seems to be working out for you. I'll close this issue for now.