Deploying with gulp fails

[Boscop]

I downloaded the zip of the master and followed the steps in the Readme and configured the ssh setting in config.js for my hosting server. Using the Git Shell on Windows 8.1:

D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus> gulp deploy:dev
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Warning: Can't run "git describe" for determine app version
[22:29:42] Using gulpfile D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\gulpfile.js
[22:29:42] Starting 'pre-deploy'...
[22:29:42] Starting 'clean'...
[22:29:42] Finished 'clean' after 6.63 ms
[22:29:42] Starting 'default'...
[22:29:42] 'default' errored after 124 μs
[22:29:42] Error: Task manifest is not configured as a task on gulp.  If this is a submodule, you may need to use require('run-sequence').use(gulp).
    at D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:20:10
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at verifyTaskSets (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:13:11)
    at D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:32:4
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at verifyTaskSets (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:13:11)
    at runSequence (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:92:2)
    at Gulp.<anonymous> (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\gulpfile.js:321:3)
    at module.exports (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\orchestrator\lib\runTask.js:34:7)
    at Gulp.Orchestrator._runTask (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\orchestrator\index.js:273:3)
[22:29:42] 'pre-deploy' errored after 11 ms
[22:29:42] Error in plugin 'run-sequence(default)'
Message:
    Task manifest is not configured as a task on gulp.  If this is a submodule, you may need to use require('run-sequenc
e').use(gulp).
Stack:
Error: Task manifest is not configured as a task on gulp.  If this is a submodule, you may need to use require('run-sequence').use(gulp).
    at D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:20:10
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at verifyTaskSets (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:13:11)
    at D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:32:4
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at verifyTaskSets (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:13:11)
    at runSequence (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:92:2)
    at Gulp.<anonymous> (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\gulpfile.js:321:3)
    at module.exports (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\orchestrator\lib\runTask.js:34:7)
    at Gulp.Orchestrator._runTask (D:\3rdparty\polymer-starter-kit-plus\node_modules\orchestrator\index.js:273:3)

I also tried with

var runSequence = require('run-sequence').use(gulp);

but it gave the same error. What am I doing wrong?

[dtodt]

+1

I'm with the same problem. It seems to be the manifest task that was removed on Pull Request 39.

I've tried two approaches: 1) I removed the manifest call from default task. With that, the app runs ok, but the manifest is not moved into dist folder. The browser cant identify the app name and icon.

2) I reversed the removal of the manifest task. With that, the app runs ok, and the manifest is moved into dist folder, but the properties appName and appShortName are not converted. The browser can identify the app manifest, but de name is {$ appName $}.

[Boscop]

Isn't there a way to have the cake and eat it too? :) Copying the manifest to dist and substituting appName?

[dtodt]

I did not understand how it can find theme.manifest.themeColor, but not appName, I've even failed on identify where theme.manifest.themeColor is set.

I've tried to put an attribute called 'app_name' inside variables.manifest object, but it does not work.

It would be nice if some of the developers solved this doubt.