fix(audience): keep package meta-complete for git-URL installs#795
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When the Audience package is installed from a git URL, Unity copies the folder into an immutable PackageCache verbatim. Any file without a .meta companion is dropped, which is a fatal error on device builds. The package shipped four non-Unity files (Directory.Build.props, two .csproj, README.md) whose .meta files are intentionally gitignored, so iOS builds failed. Move the headless dotnet build projects to src/Audience.Build so they never ship to consumers, and commit README.md.meta so the README keeps its meta. A CI check now fails any PR that reintroduces a missing meta or a non-Unity tooling file under the package. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
Studios installing the Audience SDK by git URL hit a fatal iOS build failure:
Error building Player: 9 errors. The cause is that a git-URL install copies the package into Unity's immutablePackageCacheverbatim, and Unity drops any file that has no.metacompanion. The package was shipping four non-Unity files whose.metafiles are deliberately gitignored repo-wide (Directory.Build.props, the two headless-test.csprojfiles, andREADME.md), so on device builds Unity treated each as a fatal error.This never surfaced in our own testing because the sample app references the package by
file:path, which Unity treats as mutable and tolerates.Fix
The three
.csproj/Directory.Build.propsfiles are repo-internal dotnet tooling that consumers never need, so the real fix is to keep them out of the published package entirely. They now live insrc/Audience.Build/and compile the package sources via relative globs, which keeps the headless unit-test workflow working while leaving the package clean.README.mdshould stay (the Package Manager UI displays it), so its.metais now committed.To stop this regressing, a CI check fails any PR that reintroduces a missing
.metaor a non-Unity tooling file under the package.Verification
dotnet test src/Audience.Build/Audience.Tests)..csprojor meta-less asset is reintroduced under the package.🤖 Generated with Claude Code