Native Binaries: How to share common settings across independent projects

[chefhoobajoob (Hoobajoob)]

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How to get the project directory passed to a @Mutate rule in a RuleSource plugin

Thanks. Yep, the @Path(‘buildDir’) works (and addresses my use-case). I think it’d be cleaner to have access to projectDir or rootDir because buildDir can be configured to any location.

led me to this approach:

@Mutate
void applySolutionConfiguration( VisualStudioExtension visualStudio,  @Path('buildDir') theBuildDir ) { ... }

…which isn’t the best for the reason highlighted by phaninra above. I’m a little surprised I couldn’t simply do this:

@Mutate
void applySolutionConfiguration( VisualStudioExtension visualStudio,  @Path('projectDir') theProjectDir ) { ... }

…why is buildDir special? Both are properties of the project, I’m surprised all of the File properties of the project aren’t equally accessible.