Should files be deleted in dist?

[marekhrabe]

Here you have my sundays developer story :D

I have a logo.png in my /src/images, it copies into dist when built. That's awesome.

Later on, I changed my mind to change logo to svg, so (in /src/images) I delete logo.png and copy in new logo.svg. After build, in dist folder, there is both logo.svg and logo.png (which is now obsolete 👵)

I know why this is happening, but can we somehow solve it automagically like other things in pho? I'm thinking diffing folders or something similar and I see some problems ahead. What do you think?

[PavelGavlik]

As you said it's intentional behavior. The dist folder is purely generated and user should not care about it that much. It's not cleaned every time because of imagemin plugin, which is slow, so preserving files on the disk is currently probably the best solution.

We're getting kinda philosophical here. Perfection would be great, but I think that few wasted kilobytes on the disk is better than longer incremental build with mentioned diffing folders feature. At the moment i don't know how to solve this without performance hit. Suggestions are welcome.

[PavelGavlik]

Or maybe a combination of gulp-clean and gulp-remember could be used.

[petrbrzek]

What was the result of this issue?

[PavelGavlik]

We've talked about this with Marek. I think we agreed that this is not top priority now.