"files" property in package.json ignores directories

[jbeard4]

I'm running the following verisons of npm and node:

jacob@jacob-VirtualBox:$ npm --version
1.1.0-beta-4
jacob@jacob-VirtualBox:$ node --version
v0.6.6

Documentation states the following about the "files" property in package.json:

files
The "files" field is an array of files to include in your project. If you name a folder in the
array, then it will also include the files inside that folder. (Unless they would be ignored by
another rule.)

I have a npm package with the following structure:

foo/
    package.json
    thisisafile
    thisisadirectory/
        thisisafileinadirectory

package.json is the following:

{
    "name": "foo",
    "version" : "0.0.1",
    "files" : [ "thisisadirectory","thisisafile" ]
}

When running "npm install ./foo", the installed "foo" package has the following directory structure:

foo/
    package.json
    thisisafile

Here's a link to this reduced test case: http://stuff.echo-flow.com/github/foo.tgz

[isaacs]

Can you try with npm 1.1.13 and see if this problem still exists? Thanks.

[isaacs]

Oh, actually, yeah, it's still a bug.

[RubaXa]

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