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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 08:45:51 -0500
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Subject: Re: Make cordova platform add ios work on Windows
From: Ian Clelland <iclelland@google.com>
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Yeah, in a weird way, it does kind of make sense. Especially if we're
supporting the workflow where developers can check out a cli project on
multiple machines on different platforms. I can understand if "cordova
build|run|emulate" can never work, but there's no reason for "cordova
create|platform|plugin" to fail, since they never compile or run native
code.

(It would be even worse if "cordova plugin add" only operated on the
available platform, and left the other platforms in an inconsistent state.
I don't know if that happens, but I'm going to check)

On Sunday, February 2, 2014, Axel Nennker <ignisvulpis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Without wanting to say that it makes _much_ sense or is worth the effort I
> tried this two weeks ago because I needed the iOS app on a manager's iPhone
> but the project's iOS devs were not available. I wanted to add the iOS
> platform, zip the platforms/ios folder and send it to another iOS developer
> (no Cordova there) to build it there.
>
> Maybe a deeper - low priority - goal here would be to have the same node
> scripts on most platforms.
>  Am 02.02.2014 00:06 schrieb "Jesse" <purplecabbage@gmail.com<javascript:;>
> >:
>
> > Bas, keep in mind that anyone can enter an issue in JIRA, it doesn't
> > necessarily mean that it is valid, or thought through, it is just a
> > request.
> > Andrew's comment on the issue itself points some of this out.
> > It may make more sense to start with issues that have be created by a
> core
> > contributor.
> > You probably chose this issue because it was unassigned, choosing an
> > assigned bug ( but not in-progress ) may be better as well, just be sure
> to
> > reassign it to yourself, and mark it in-progress.
> >
> > @purplecabbage
> > risingj.com
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Steven Gill <stevengill97@gmail.com<javascript:;>
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Why do we want to allow IOS create on windows? Xcode(a mac) is a
> > > requirement for development for iOS. I don't understand why this
> > > functionality is needed. WP stuff needs a windows machine to
> > > run/build/emulate. Hence why those commands are only available on a
> > windows
> > > machine.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Bas Bosman <cordova@nazgul.nu<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've been looking into this. (JIRA CB-5706)
> > > >
> > > > The current create and update scripts for iOS are shell and Python
> > > script.
> > > > Both of which aren't available on Windows without jumping through a
> lot
> > > of
> > > > hoops.
> > > >
> > > > Converting the scripts to JavaScript, modeled after the Android
> > scripts,
> > > > will fix the issues of not being able to run them on Windows as we
> > > already
> > > > have a Node dependency.
> > > >
> > > > But the bigger problem is check_reqs. That will never succeed on
> > Windows
> > > > as there's no XCode there.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe add an optional --force parameter that will allow people to
> > ignore
> > > > the check_reqs result?
> > > >
> > > > Before creating a JIRA issue for that I wanted to solicit some
> opinions
> > > > here. Is this a valid course of action? Are there better
> alternatives?
> > > >
> > > > Bas
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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