I think Flash Builder will copy any file that is found in the source-path
that isn't a source file (.as or .mxml) and also isn't included with
something like [Embed].

- Josh

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 2/8/17, 6:10 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I just made changes for both of these and it seems to work for me.
> >
> >Someone please look at my commit to make sure it covers the issue
> >correctly.
>
> Seems ok for now.
>
> I'm wondering, though, what the rules are in the IDEs for copying files to
> the output folder.  Does anybody know?  I'm pretty sure the SWF compiler
> does not copy any files.  Flash Builder will copy certain files, but I've
> never understood the rules it uses to do that.  IMO, the whole point of
> this code in the JS compiler is an attempt to emulate what FB does,
> including generation of the HTML wrapper.
>
> IIRC, folks who don't use FB to build their regular Flex app using Ant
> have to add the copying of these files to their build.xml.  Same for
> Maven, which is why Chris and I aren't particularly fond of this code in
> FalconJX.
>
> In the compiler refactor I'm working on for building SWFs and JS in one
> compiler launch, we are also setting ourselves up for having different
> flavors of Publishers, like a CordovaPublisher that does other things
> after the transpile is done, such as calling Cordova CLI to finish
> building a Cordova Application.  I'm wondering if there should be flavors
> of Publishers for Maven that, for example, don't do any copying or HTML
> template generation and instead rely on Maven to do those things (and
> maybe output some data to be used by the subsequent Maven phases (if I'm
> using that term correctly), and also have FB variants that copy the same
> files FB copies to bin-debug and bin-release to the JS output folders.
>
> Thoughts?
> -Alex
>
>

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