Include files and directories while preserving its permissions.

This is a Feature Proposal

Description

Including a static file or directory and preserving its original file permissions. This would be particularly useful for including binaries in the final package.

Currently the only way that I am aware of to do this, is to run a shell script that copies the files into the .webpack folder before the bundling process. But maybe this functionality can be included in this plugin.

[fantapop]

As a work around for this issue I was able to use the on-build-webpack plugin to manually fix the files after the webpack build. In my case I’m just adding executable permissions to everything passing through that has .exe for an extension.

const WebpackOnBuildPlugin = require('on-build-webpack');

...

module.exports = {

...

    plugins: [
        new WebpackOnBuildPlugin(fixExecutablePermissions),
    ],

...

function fixExecutablePermissions(stats) {
    for (const filename in stats.compilation.assets) {
        if (filename.endsWith('.exe')) {
            const basePath = stats.compilation.outputOptions.path;
            const fullPath = `${basePath}/${filename}`;
            fs.chmodSync(fullPath, '755');
        }
    }
}

[boazdejong]

There is still a lot to do, but this is the forked plugin: webpack-plugin-copy The permissions copy seems to work, but I still need to write the tests.

Any pull requests are welcome. I’ll do my best to actively maintain the package.