Is there a way to add a directory to classpath so that the top-level path is retained? E.g., I want to add res/ to :resource-paths, so that on the classpath the files are accessible as res/foo/bar..., not foo/bar....

@alexyakushev no, you would need to nest your folders one more level to do that

Perhaps, there is a hack to do that using sift magic?

I need to add a bunch of dirs that are top-level in the project, and putting them in another folder would break a lot of conventions

i wonder if symlinks could help?

no idea how well boot handles those

@dave simlinks have issues, there is an untested patch

@alexyakushev you could use sift task and move the files around

Although I wonder how moving the files down one folder would break conventions, is there something else this would affect?

@alexyakushev sift is definitely your friend.