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Aug 14th, 2018 at 10:16am
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I would like a feature that allows me to consolidate all the project dependencies into the project folder, without having to manually copy across files/folders.

I would also be good to be able to update/roll back these modules and switch between the local and original libraries easily. 

That way my project can be tied to correct (last known working) library versions and uploaded to my git repository as a single independent project.


If there is an existing approach to doing this, I apologise as I have been unable to find an easy solution.
  
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Reply #1 - Aug 14th, 2018 at 12:01pm
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I guess you are just talking about libraries?

Makes sense. We have a menu item for local libs that copies/publishes to sketchbook but you need the opposite. Maybe also a setting that says to always add libraries locally when adding libraries.

  
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Reply #2 - Aug 14th, 2018 at 3:43pm
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Yes, I am talking about libraries.
Currently I use the Add Library with the create shared library option. 
It would be great if I had the option to create a local copy of the added library. 
But I also want to consolidate a copy of the platform dependencies into the folder aswell.
  
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Reply #3 - Aug 14th, 2018 at 3:55pm
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I agree there should be a copy local option when adding libs. Dd you know you can copy the libs to wherever you want and then re-add the shared references (but it would be nice to automate this)

It's something I have been thinking about but it feels like the "Solution" should be the place for these things. 

Putting them below the project is prone to complexity and is it not the entire solution that is checked into source control.

Therefore the physical folder structure below the solution should be something like this?

Solution
     Core
     Libraries
     Project

You also need to be able to have multiple sets of cores and libs then maybe just set a path for each in the current project. IE: Support v2 by adding two paths to the current project "\v2\Libraries and \v2\Core"

  
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