Problem installing 'main' files with bower

[ghelton]

I'm receiving the following message when using grunt-bower-task or bower-installer to grab the main files from the repository:

no such file or directory 'bower_components/bootstrap/dist/fonts/*'

The folder is there, and the build tools dont seem to recognize the wildcard. Is this a problem for anyone else, or is could it be a problem with my installation? Any info is appreciated.

My Gruntfile looks like so:

module.exports = function(grunt) {

    grunt.initConfig({
        bower: {
            install: {
                options: {
                    targetDir: './bower',
                    layout: 'byType',
                    install: true,
                    verbose: true,
                    cleanTargetDir: true,
                    cleanBowerDir: true
                }
            }
        }
    });

    grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-bower-task');

    // Default task(s).
    grunt.registerTask('default', ['bower']);

};

The commit that added the wildcard is here:
56f1ff6#diff-0a08a7565aba4405282251491979bb6b

[cvrebert]

Have escalated to the Bower folks.

[zlatanvasovic]

@cvrebert It looks like Bower doesn't support regexes in main, so you need to use complete file list. :(

[ghost]

csomag elérhető NuGet . A reaktív Extensions (Rx) rajongók, mi is egy IObservable alapú " Octokit.Reactive "társa csomagot.

[thomaswelton]

Urgh. Well my original PR listed out the individual files. But was asked to resubmit it like this.

[zlatanvasovic]

@thomaswelton Everyone gets many failures, this is one of them. Will you resubmit your origin pull request, or wait the Bower folks for fix? :)

[cvrebert]

@zdroid @thomaswelton We'll fix it ourselves once we hear back from the Bower folks.

[thomaswelton]

I feel pretty bad. Like I totally broke the bower install of bootstrap by trying to make it better.
I hear by tender my resignation for submitting open source contributions.

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[zlatanvasovic]

@thomaswelton Wait, why? I made million bad pull requests and commits, don't worry about this fail! :)

[thomaswelton]

Was joking :)
@BrenoC did this previously work for you? Have you had wildcards in bower work. Could this be that wildcards were only supported since a certain bower version?

#9964

[zlatanvasovic]

@thomaswelton :P

[klzns]

@thomaswelton sorry, I thought this would work, but it doesn't, my bad!

[cvrebert]

Okay, the Bower folks say that main should just be a single JS file.

[zlatanvasovic]

@cvrebert So, do it.

[thomaswelton]

Bower is nice, put it's also kinda awful...
It downloads an entire repo and expects you to deal with it. To overcome this there are several tools and grunt plugins that use the main files and copies those into another location.
For example I have my bower_components in the root but ignored, and the main files copied into the public/assets dir. This works very well for me and many other people with a similar setup.

My original PR listed out the font files as individual declarations, which would have worked for the above setup.
So the main files should ideally contain all the files that your project needs. Which for this case includes the font and CSS files.

http://bower.io/#defining-a-package states that main [string|array]: The primary endpoints of your package. For and app that depends on CSS files I'd say the CSS and fonts should be included along with the JS file.

I thought the reason you were talking to the bower folks was to find out if the wildcard should have been supported. Not wether the CSS and font files should be removed. The css has been specified in that file since v2.2.0 https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v2.2.0/component.json

[westonplatter]

Can we fix the issue via #11599?

[cvrebert]

Looks like the Bower folk are in reality still sorting out their spec/implementation.

[cvrebert]

Merged #11599, which fixes the issue until such time as Bower ratifies a new spec and then implements it.

[westonplatter]

@cvrebert thanks!

[ghelton]

Thanks for all the help guys, it's working great!