Cloud compile - Files goes to original directory

[kennethlimcp]

So i saved an ino as, blinky.ino on my desktop.

Arduino would create a DIR called blinky and blinky.ino is inside.

To make it easier to call the blinky.ino, i placed it in e:\ drive and run: spark cloud compile e:\blinky.ino

The execution is successful but the bin file appears in my desktop\blinky folder

If i delete the desktop\blinky folder, the compilation is successful but the bin file went to my USER directory (C:\Users\Kenneth Lim)

Maybe it only happens in windows

[dmiddlecamp]

I think right now the CLI will download the firmware binary to the current working directory, or wherever you ran the command from. It sounds like it would be more straightforward to use the directory of the target file?

[kennethlimcp]

@dmiddlecamp Ah i get what you mean!

How is it like on Mac and linux? Since the terminal on them doesn't really have a base directory specified when running.

I CHDIR on the Command prompt and the bin file appeared where it should be.

Just thinking how we can make it easier for the 1st time users 👍

[dmiddlecamp]

I'm thinking just displaying the full path makes it easier to know where the downloaded file ended up, what do you think?

[kennethlimcp]

It's easy to tell now as i have tested it out but having the .bin where the original source code is might be better since the user is frequently working in that dir