I was just wondering if there's a way to disable the fetching of bower components of my project. I have set a different installation directory in a .bowerrc file but it still installs in www/bower_components.
In the current release there is no way to override that directory location. At this time, these properties in your .bowerrc file are overridden by the implementation that is included in the XDK:
proxy
https-proxy
analytics
directory
cwd
interactive
The "directory" property will work in your .bowerrc file in a future release, but the others will likely continue to be overridden. Unfortunately, I am not allowed to publish an expected date for a release that will include that change.
In the current release there is no way to override that directory location. At this time, these properties in your .bowerrc file are overridden by the implementation that is included in the XDK:
proxy
https-proxy
analytics
directory
cwd
interactive
The "directory" property will work in your .bowerrc file in a future release, but the others will likely continue to be overridden. Unfortunately, I am not allowed to publish an expected date for a release that will include that change.
I'm not quite sure why you would say that it seems like a very "amateur" decision.
I'm not forcing bower integration; Intel XDK just happens to have this new feature of managing your bower dependencies.
I'd like to ignore this specific configuration (installation directory of bower components) because it overrides my own. I've set it to a different directory so that the dependencies would not add up to the size of the built APKs/IPAs.
Sorry, @Justin, my reply was directed at Intel; I'm on the same page as you. I (and all Ionic users) have bower dependencies in a different directory, and I also want to disable the bower integration if this the result. The "amateur decision" to me was at the XDK feature forcing bower integration, but then ignoring bower configurations. I would have liked to see it implemented fully or not at all.
Guys, the reason we issue the EA version of the XDK is to get this sort of feedback up front, before it goes into the mainstream product. The Bower integration was in the EA release for several months before we released in the public release. Please checkout the EA releases so we can get this sort of feedback right away for other features we're working on. You can install both EA and the regular release on your machine at the same time, just cannot run them at the same time.
