[ALOY-810] When moving app outside Studio workspace, alloy compile fails

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Bug
Priority	Low
Status	Closed
Resolution	Invalid
Resolution Date	2014-01-20T22:41:56.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	n/a
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Reporter	Davide Cassenti
Assignee	Unknown
Created	2013-08-29T09:43:34.000+0000
Updated	2018-03-07T22:28:25.000+0000

Description

Steps to reproduce

1) create an app in Appcelerator Studio 2) move the app's directory into a different path (~/Downloads/) 3) open the new path in console 4) alloy compile --config platform=ios

Actual result

Compilation fails with this error: ~~~ [ERROR] Alloy "app" directory does not exist at "/Users/dcassenti/Downloads/app" ~~~ Running the same command when the app is in the workspace works; same happens if - instead of creating a new app - I do: 1) download someone's app in ~/Downloads/ 2) open the app's main directory 3) alloy compile --config platform=ios

Comments

Davide Cassenti 2013-08-29

I checked the alloy source, actually the problem is different. It fails if you have a tiapp.xml in the parent folder (in my case, I had one ~/Downloads/tiapp.xml). Not sure if this might be considered an issue or not.
Tony Lukasavage 2014-01-20

Alloy's just doing its best to find what you are trying to compile. It sees a tiapp.xml and an app folder, so it thinks it found it. I think it's fair to expect developers to call the compile form the appropriate folder.
Eric Merriman 2018-03-07

Closing as invalid. If this is incorrect, please reopen.

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