[I7-2073] Inblorb should put the generated blorb in the release folder

[curiousdannii-testing]

Perhaps this an unsupported usage, but I’m trying to figure out the simplest way to go from “an Inform 7 project” to “a distributable release”.

My current procedure looks something like this:

1. inform7 -silence -project path/to/Project.inform which creates path/to/Project.inform/Build/auto.inf
2. inform6 -G path/to/Project.inform/Build/auto.inf path/to/Project.inform/Build/output.ulx
3. inblorb -project path/to/Project.inform which creates path/to/Project.inform/Build/output.zblorb and prints “Copy blorb to: [[./Release/Untitled.gblorb]]”

There’s a number of things about inblorb that confuse me:

• Why does it create a .zblorb file when it knows it’s supposed to be creating a .gblorb file?
• If it needs the interface to do the copying work, why does it not describe where to copy the file from?
• Why does it need the interface to do the copying work, when it copies literally all the other files into the Release directory, including a base64’d copy of the (correctly named) blorb file if releasing with an interpreter?

It seems that things would be simpler all around if inblorb would just put all the release files in the release folder with the correct names, including the blorb file. If the interface needs to do some additional handling of the blorb file, perhaps Inblorb could print “Copied blorb to: [[./Release/Untitled.gblorb]]” to let the interface find it.

imported from: Inblorb should put the generated blorb in the release folder

• status: Closed
• priority: Low
• resolution: Won't Do
• resolved: 2022-05-02T05:35:06+10:00
• imported: 2022/01/10

[curiousdannii-testing]

5d0666bb19d1e00c48e1242f:

Inblorb is behaving to spec here, I think. There's a manual on how instructions are given to inblorb ("blurb" files), but the IF Forum is a better place to ask for help - this is a bug tracker rather than being for general support questions.