Flet build --exclude command option

[BrentHuang]

flet build does not have the exclude option and cannot exclude some directories or files.

[ndonkoHenri]

Which directories do you wish to see excluded? Please provide more information.
Flet build packages only content of your project directory.

[BrentHuang]

For example, in my project, there is a logs directory, which contains log files, and a scripts directory, which contains my packaging scripts, which are not needed.

In the above picture, there are .po files in the translations directory, which also do not need to be packaged.

[FeodorFitsner]

package command in serious_python package already has --exclude option, but I see flet build passes hard-coded assets,build there. We need to expose this option in flet build.

Another option would be "automate" exclusion list by parsing .gitignore. Don't know if other tools do that, but sounds like a nice idea :)

[BrentHuang]

A semantically clear exclude is better.

[BrentHuang]

A semantically clear exclude is better, because some files and directories may not necessarily be in .gitignore file.

[BrentHuang]

flet build --build-number=1 --build-version="1.0.0" --exclude="scripts/ logs/ .gitignore babel.cfg i18n.bat README.md requirements.txt .pod.po" -vv windows

flet 0.22.1 --exclude like this? but has no effect like this, no files and dirs excluded.

[MSchwesig]

flet build --build-number=1 --build-version="1.0.0" --exclude="scripts/ logs/ .gitignore babel.cfg i18n.bat README.md requirements.txt .pod.po" -vv windows

It works, you just have to separate differently:

• no / at the end of a dir, just the name of the dir.
• separate the files with a ,
• pack all in "
  so it would be something like that:
  flet build --build-number=1 --build-version="1.0.0" --exclude="scripts, logs, .gitignore, babel.cfg, README.md" windows

and do not exclude the requirements.txt, you need the dependencies ;)

[syleishere]

This is useful, adding wildcard support like *.bat, *.sh would be great addition to this.