add dist files

[ghost]

Out of 20~ish projects installed through package management, and automated through grunt, chosen is the first who doesn't have dist files in the project source, why is that?
Since chosen is available through bower it seems like a good practise since people install it through a package manager 'for the web' and the project source right now is just there for contributors.

I tried to setup grunt-contrib-sass and parse it into css which resulted in the error below even though i have the compass gem installed.
Since i coulnd't get it to work i just end up manually downloading the package with the dist files.

'File to import not found or unreadable: compass/css3/box-sizing.'

So why aren't there any dist files/build map in the project source?

[stof]

We used to have the dist file in the git repo previously, but this was a pain in the ass as they were creating conflicts in all PRs as soon as another one was merged. Thus, half of the PRs were modifying the JS files directly instead of modifying the CoffeeScript source (requiring maintainers to ask them to redo the work)
This is why we decided not to include them in the git repo.

[greg0ire]

Since bower downloads archives from github, wouldn't it be possible to use the "attach binary assets" functionality described here to make dist files available through bower without checking them in the repository ?

[stof]

This is the way we attach the build code to releases already

[greg0ire]

@stof: Indeed, I can see that the zip corresponding to the green download button contains chosen.css, but it looks like bower uses another file :

bower chosen#~1.0.0 download https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/archive/1.0.0.tar.gz

This file does not contain the css file.

How can I have bower grab the correct file ?

[stof]

this means that bower does not download the attach files but the archive containing the source code. You should contain that bower team to know whether bower supports build assets (and to request it if it does not). I have no idea as I'm not a bower user

[greg0ire]

Ok, thanks. Looks like it is not possible yet but it is being worked on

[tjschuck]

Closing this one based on conversation above. Thanks @Mothproof, @greg0ire, and @stof.

[pfiller]

bower install chosen

As of 1.4.2, Chosen supports bower installs. Read the 1.4.2 release notes for details.