Windows: Symbolic link to font files fails about ultimate-seed

[pilwon]

@jaulz Hmm symbolic link is a tricky one because that is the best way to share bower component between js/less/fonts. If you are looking for less -> css processing, look for less task in Gruntfile. But I think the closest technique that avoids symbolic links is to use bower post-install hook. See how npm-scripts.js is called by scripts section in package.json. It automatically generates config files from sample config files. Unfortunately bower doesn't currently seem to provide this functionality like npm does. Let's find out a good solution for this.

[jaulz]

@pilwon: it seems there is a misunderstanding. I actually wanted to know how you do the routing between /client/css/* to /.tmp/css/*. You link to /css/main.css in the html file but this file does not exist and instead the main.css from the /.tmp/css folder is retrieved. My proposal to solve this problem would be to write a grunt task that resolves all symbolic links in /client/fonts/ and copies all files to /.tmp/fonts/. Similar to the routing of the css files the fonts will then be loaded from /.tmp/fonts/.

[pilwon]

@jaulz This is what you're looking for: ultimate's lib/server/express.js But since express server already treats .tmp as one of static directories, you just need to place font files in .tmp/fonts and copy them into {{project.dist}} during grunt build task. I agree with your proposal to use .tmp/fonts for that.