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From: Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:24:31 -0500
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Subject: Re: Cygwin for Windows
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Yep, I was mostly thinking about Android with this question. There's really
two aspects that it would simplify:

1. Our documentation would not have to worry about windows vs. unix
2. Our scripts (and upgrade scripts) won't have to be written twice.
Although maybe if we are making node a requirement (due to CLI yes?) then
writing them in node would save us writing them twice. Still, they would
need to be tested & tweaks for windows I would assume.

I'm totally fine keeping things as-is. Just thought the question had to be
raised :)


On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Kerri Shotts <kerrishotts@gmail.com>wrote=
:

> Yes, please! Descriptive errors would go a long way to making the
> tools easier to use. At least it would point at a specific reason for
> failure vs the current vague message.
>
> ______________________________
> Kerri Shotts
> photoKandy Studios LLC
>
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>
> On Jan 20, 2013, at 22:14, Simon MacDonald <simon.macdonald@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > -1
> >
> > We should just make the windows scripts work better. Needs more
> descriptive
> > failures when something is not setup correctly.
> >
> > Simon Mac Donald
> > http://hi.im/simonmacdonald
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Anis KADRI <anis.kadri@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> -1
> >>
> >> I (and most people) just want to get going and don't like dependencies=
.
> >> We're already requiring nodejs for a lot of the stuff we do.
> >>
> >> If you're referring to the Android windows scripts. I believe they wor=
k
> >> fine. If there are any issues with them, people should report them jus=
t
> as
> >> they would report any other issue.
> >>
> >> There is one outstanding issue on Windows that I will fix next week.
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1961
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Kerri Shotts <kerrishotts@gmail.com
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just my 2=C2=A2: people are already complaining about the number of p=
arts
> that
> >>> need to be installed -- do we really want to add yet another? I reali=
ze
> >> it
> >>> would make the scripts easier, but the more moving (third party) part=
s
> >> that
> >>> have to be installed prior to using PhoneGap (especially those that
> >> aren't
> >>> required for the platform's SDK), the higher the barrier to entry. (B=
ut
> >>> then again, maybe that's a good thing...?)
> >>>
> >>> ___________________________________
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> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>>
> >>> https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/photokandy-studios-llc/id498577828
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 20, 2013, at 8:14, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@google.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I'm sure this has come up some time in the past, but why not require
> >>> cygwin
> >>>> so that our scripts will work on windows? Cygwin has been a
> requirement
> >>> of
> >>>> most of the windows projects I've worked on in the past (when at
> >>> different
> >>>> companies).
> >>
>

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