Removing dist from the repository

I’m not sure it’s really correct to have the distribution in the repository - can it not be built immediately prior to being uploaded to the website?

Running git status after a build with no changes currently gives:

$ git status
On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   dist/assets/css/all.css
	modified:   dist/assets/css/maps/all.css.map
	modified:   dist/offline-reference/p5-reference.zip

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

And after erasing dist/ (I know I should have used grunt clean but I am used to having builds that you can remove the output folder and it comes out the same)

On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   dist/assets/css/all.css
	modified:   dist/assets/css/maps/all.css.map
	deleted:    dist/assets/helpers/release.php
	deleted:    dist/assets/helpers/version.json
	modified:   dist/assets/img/asterisk-01-01.png
	modified:   dist/assets/img/asterisk-01.png
	modified:   dist/assets/img/books/gettingstarted.png
	modified:   dist/assets/img/cc_88x31.png
	deleted:    dist/assets/img/debugging/0-0.jpg
        [... snip some deleted files ...]
	deleted:    dist/assets/img/debugging/9-1.jpg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/learn/3d.jpg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/libraries/dom.jpg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/libraries/grafica.jpg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/libraries/p5.bots.jpg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/libraries/p5.geolocation.png
	modified:   dist/assets/img/libraries/p5.gibber.jpg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/libraries/p5.gif.gif
	modified:   dist/assets/img/libraries/p5.particle.png
	modified:   dist/assets/img/libraries/p5.play3.png
	modified:   dist/assets/img/libraries/p5.speech.jpg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/libraries/rita.png
	modified:   dist/assets/img/libraries/sound.jpg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/p5js-beta.svg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/p5js.svg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/search.png
	modified:   dist/assets/img/test-image-0.jpg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/test-image-1.jpg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/thick-asterisk-alone-gray.svg
	modified:   dist/assets/img/thick-asterisk-alone.svg
	deleted:    dist/assets/img/tutorials/debugging/0-0.jpg
        [... snip a lot of deleted files ...]
	deleted:    dist/reference/modules/p5.sound.html

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Which implies to me that the build is not fully repeatable. I don’t know if this is that much of a problem (And I saw #108 just now after being confused why my diff was so huge working on a recent PR) but I think it’s probably best to remove dist/ if at all possible.

Is it possible to set this as something to aim for?

[limzykenneth]

We can probably put it in src/ but we’ll need a copy step in grunt to copy it into dist/ on build.

[lmccart]

thanks for this. I’ve started removing things chunk by chunk, so far site is looking good. thanks so much @meiamsome for figuring this out, it’s definitely a big improvement over the old system. looking forward to getting things fully cleaned up and sorted.