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From: Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 10:36:06 -0400
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Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: node.js all the script things
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+1 for Android.


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Bryan Higgins <bryan@bryanhiggins.net>wrote:

> All BB scripts are already written in node, except for check_reqs. It's
> hard to check for the existence of node using node. :)
>
> If other platforms go that way, we should standardize the location of the
> scripts. I'd like to see them directly invoked by CLI rather than going
> through the shell.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Anis KADRI <anis.kadri@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > +1 if we can somehow automate a user-level node installation (or
> > package it somehow).
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com> wrote:
> > > That's a fair answer! I concur. The main win for me is in android + BB
> > > land, for the reason you name, Jesse.
> > >
> > > On 8/6/13 3:24 PM, "Jesse" <purplecabbage@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>I only think this should be done for the multi-OS platforms.
> > >>Elsewhere it is just a make work project IMHO.
> > >>I have spent a lot of time ensuring that I was not introducing
> > >>dependencies, then we add node, and we get 600 deps.
> > >>
> > >>@purplecabbage
> > >>risingj.com
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I would like to introduce node.js as a dependency for the platform
> > >>> libraries, so that the platform scripts (bin/create, cordova/run,
> etc)
> > >>>are
> > >>> written in node.
> > >>>
> > >>> Pros:
> > >>> - For multi-OS platforms (Android, BlackBerry), this reduces
> committer
> > >>> cognitive load as the scripts do not need to be authored in two
> > >>>different
> > >>> script languages (I.e. Shell for unix-y Oses, Wscript for Windows)
> > >>> - consistency in tool/script language. Cordova-js, coho, cli and
> > plugman
> > >>> are all written on top of node.js.
> > >>>
> > >>> Cons:
> > >>> - Introducing a new dependency
> > >>>
> > >>> NB: This is separate from platform-spec; I would like to see
> > >>>platform-spec
> > >>> created/used regardless of the outcome of this thread.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >
> >
>

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