Support adding resources for an individual build about goxc

[laher]

Hi Owen, thanks for the report. I'll try to deal with both aspects this weekend.

I'll deal with the subfolder bug first. I think it's just a bug in the 'zip' task and shouldn't take long to fix it.

Secondly, my approach to per-platform parameters is to have multiple config files in the same folder. The only thing missing at the moment is the possibility to share common settings between the configs.

I've deliberated over how to share settings across config files before, but I think I'll just decide on a name for a base config, e.g. 'base.goxc.json', and then both configs will automatically inherit settigs from that.
So, you'd put the version numbers etc in 'base.goxc.json', and then in each config you'd add platform filtering and per-platform options. For darwin you'd run goxc -c=darwin. This is all possible already except you need to specify everything twice (including version number, etc)

For now you can do this.
It works but you'll need to keep all your common settings in sync:
cp .goxc.json darwin.goxc.json
goxc -wc -os='linux windows plan9'
goxc -wc -os=darwin -c=darwin

But, after I've made the change you would do it a bit differently.
mv .goxc.json base.goxc.json
goxc -wc -os='linux windows plan9'
goxc -wc -os=darwin -c=darwin
Then you wouldn't need to duplicate all the common stuff.

I hope that makes sense.

[laher]

Hey I fixed the 'subdirectories' issue. Please go get -u github.com/laher/goxc and try it.
More to follow soon. Cheers

[owenthereal]

Thanks! Already using it!

[laher]

OK goxc now have 'config inheritance':

1. update to latest version go get -u github.com/laher/goxc
2. To prepare your 2 specific configurations (in addition to your main config file), you can run the following commands:

goxc -wc -c=darwin -bc='darwin' -include='myosxfile1,myosxfile2' goxc -wc -c=default -bc='!darwin'

Note the use of single quotes in the -bc option. (because exclamation marks have significance in bash)

This creates 2 new files, (default.goxc.json and darwin.config.json).
Both configs now (as of version 0.8.0) inherit from the main config file (.goxc.json).

1. Remove the Darwin-specific entries from the Include line in the base config file '.goxc.json'.
2. To invoke the 2 configs, you can use these commands:
   goxc goxc -c=darwin

Note that during invocation, the 'default' file 'default.goxc.json' is used by default. If it's not there, goxc will still use the 'base' file .goxc.json.

I hope that all makes sense and solves your problem.
Cheers

[owenthereal]

Super! I am using it already. Thanks for the hard work! Closing the issue