Changing sbt project's directory layout

According to sbt tutorial on changing paths I'm trying to change "target" output directory to "someother"

override def outputDirectoryName = "someother"

Everything goes fine except one: sbt automatically creates target directory with ".history" file inside. Why sbt does this when it supposed do create only "someother" dir ? I tryied to override all methods that are inherited from Bas开发者_开发技巧icProjectPaths (I use sbt.DefaultProject as superclass of my project descriptor)

override def mainCompilePath = ...
override def testCompilePath = ...
...

But sbt creates "target" folder in spite of paths overriding.

It certainly seems that it should use the overridden outputDirectoryName in trunk...

/** The path to the file that provides persistence for history. */
def historyPath: Option[Path] = Some(outputRootPath / ".history")
def outputPath = crossPath(outputRootPath)
def outputRootPath: Path = outputDirectoryName
def outputDirectoryName = DefaultOutputDirectoryName

(from SBT's current trunk).

It may have been different in a previous version. Have you considered raising a new bug?

In sbt 0.13.5, I found a way to change the target folder by just re-assigning target in the build.sbt file:

target := file("someotherParent") / "someotherSubdir"

This only modifies the directory for the built classes and artifacts, however, the .history file is always in the project root directory.

Unfortunately, some other plugins (xsbt-web-plugin) seem to have problems with that - running the webapp via SBT console produced weird errors, when I switched back to the standard directory layout, these problems disappeared.

A better way to achieve my goals (of all JARS in one directory, whose names contains the JAVA-VM-version) seems to be to specify an appropriate target for publishing - there are less restrictions on "sbt publish", and other plugins are not disturbed by a different directory layout.