don't gitignore the dist-folder

[ember-cli]

don't gitignore the dist-folder

[stefanpenner]

I'm unsure if this addons should link dist. They should likely use --output-path

[nathanhammond]

Hey @Suven! We discussed this in today's ember-cli team meeting. To rephrase your goal we believe that you want to have a single place inside of an application guaranteed to always exist so that you can have a persistent symlink external to the project have a "reference" to that folder.

Since the entire existence of the output folder is considered transient by ember-cli it's not a good fit for your proposed pattern. It's part of several typical workflows to rm -rf dist, so we already don't feel like we can provide guarantees as to its existence even if we accounted for it internally inside of ember-cli.

We encourage you to explore --output-path and see if you can make that do what you want (and target folders external to the application). We're excited to work with you to make that support your needs. We imagine that the integration with external workflows should match something similar to what ember-cli-deploy does, which essentially wraps ember build and feeds that into Cordova/Electron.

We're also working to identify a core extensibility primitive which should make it easier for you to tweak behaviors inside of addons.

[Suven]

Thanks for your consideration and explanation (:

I'll look into the output-path alternatives