Build project with a fixed path

[SimonWpt]

It would be great, if I could set a fixed path for project building. I am developing a chrome extension and deploying via Apatana is a little painfull with changing paths:-(

Greetings

Bertram

[William-Owen]

I agree.

It would be fantastic if the current behaviour of creating time-stamped folders could be supplemented with the option to specify a single target build directory, this would then be deleted and re-created on build.

The option to define a path for the time-stamped folders or the target directory would be great.

These options should be set on a per-project basis, possibly as part of config.rb ?

[hlb]

Does "delete and recreate" work for everyone?

[William-Owen]

I can't speak for everyone but as an option that would be very useful.

[SimonWpt]

"delete and recreate" for a fixed path? Yes:-)

[William-Owen]

Out of interest is there a work around / hack anyone could suggest as a short term remedy? This is killing my workflow.

I have had a dig around for some sort of config change I could make and looked at apps that might watch the folder and check for a new build_xxxxxxxxxxxx directory and then move it but I can't find anything that would do the job.

Any suggestions appreciated.

[hlb]

It might be dangerous if user can specify the build location anywhere. Ex: "/", "~/", "c:", ...

We would like to implement in this way:

• You can create a "fireapp.config" in your project folder
• There will be a "random_build_folder" option, default: true
• If you set random_build_folder = false, Fire.app will always generate the build in "build/" folder, not "build_xxxxxx".

Does it work for you?

[SimonWpt]

Not the easy way, but it is OK for me:)

[William-Owen]

I am sure that given the options to allow a build anywhere some people could find somewhere silly to build it, but I think that it should be a allowed as this would allow for the best application flexibility.

Other than that I think it would be cool if the file had the following settings

build_folder_path ""

• If no set this would default to the /build directory based on the application path

build_to_timestamped_folder = true

• default behaviour, if set to false the code would be built to the root of the build path folder.

[SimonWpt]

Why not integrating it in the config.rb? There is no need for a new config-file.

[William-Owen]

I wondered that but I would guess that its not Ruby that would be doing the work.

[hlb]

@SimonWpt because config.rb is compass's config file, and we don't want to mix it.

[lggarrison]

I would like the option to define a path for the time-stamped folders. Thanks.

[hlb]

It is done in Fire.app 1.2, but there is no UI option (yet).

HOWTO: You can add fireapp_build_path="foo" in config.rb, and it will build project to project_path/foo. When Fire.app build a project, it will delete the folder first, then regenerate it.

DANGER: If you add fireapp_build_path="/path/to/build/folder/path" in config.rb, it will build project to /path/to/build/folder/path. If you write "/Users/foo", your home folder may be removed.