Relocating snapcraft output directories

[MikeB]

I work in a development environment where sources are kept on a filesystem
that is automatically backed up fairly often and we place our build
output/generated objects on fast build servers that are not backed up.
Having build output on the backed-up filesystem is very much discouraged.

With snapcraft, I find myself keeping my snap directory on the build server
and manually backing up my work-in-progress whenever I remember to do it.

Also, for a similar reason, I feel that locating custom plugins in
parts/plugins is unfortunate.  Other than parts/plugins, the parts
directory only contains generated files.  It would be nice if the plugins
directory could be located in a source area rather than a build output area.

Would it be possible to enhance snapcraft to allow all generated objects -
parts, stage, snap, and the generated snap to be located on a different
filesystem?

Regards, Mike
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snapcraft/attachments/20160603/d6d73bc9/attachment.html>