Hidden 'dotfiles' within an extraResources folder aren't copied

• 5.18.0:

• Mac:

Using electron-builder to build a Mac .app file. My resources include some Python libraries, and they store some files in a folder called .dylibs. So the tree looks like (simplified):

Repo root
|- vendor
|  |- tide-packages
|  |  |- PIL
|  |  |  |- image.py
|  |  |  |- .dylibs
|  |  |  |  |- libjpeg.dylib

I’ve specified the vendor folder in extraResources in my package.json, and everything inside it is copied, except the .dylibs folder. I think its due to the use of minimatch in the copy filter.

Currently the workaround is to add another rule in package.json:

  "build": {
    "extraResources": [
      "vendor",
      "vendor/**/.*",
      "vendor/**/.*/**",
    ],
  }

I didn’t expect this to be needed, though, since I don’t expect glob to be used when there are no wildcards in the path.

Ref: https://github.com/tingbot/tide-electron/issues/42

[joerick]

My absolute preferred solution would be: when a folder is explicitly listed as something to copy, only exclude files within that we know are useless in a production build - .DS_Store, thumbs.db, .git, etc.

Just checked Xcode’s copy command… it does the following-

builtin-copy -exclude .DS_Store -exclude CVS -exclude .svn -exclude .git -exclude .hg -resolve-src-symlinks $SRC $DEST

[joerick]

👍 no worries!