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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:03:37 -0700
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Subject: Re: Adding ability to add any platform on any OS
From: Jesse <purplecabbage@gmail.com>
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Well, if platforms are a build artifact, then they would not be in version
control anyway.

In my opinion, the feature is not worth the risk of the changes it
requires.


@purplecabbage
risingj.com

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Josh Soref <jsoref@blackberry.com> wrote:

> Cross platform developers with remote build systems.
>
> I'm currently doing work on a mac, but I spent a bit of my time w/ a
> Windows machine, and a bit w/ a Linux machine. I often have shared file
> systems (smb:, or .git, or whatever).
>
> It's moderately annoying that I have to be on my mac in order to do some
> manipulation, and on an ubuntu box to do some manipulation, and on a
> windows box to do some manipulation.
>
> Ok, I take that back, if I had to do that, I'd be pissed.
>
> On 10/17/14, 4:30 PM, "Jesse" <purplecabbage@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I don't see a ton of value in this, but I do see a lot of risk.
> >Platform scripts + hooks are called for any changes to plugins (add/rm) so
> >you are going to have multiple points of failure.
> >Who does this feature help?
> >
> >@purplecabbage
> >risingj.com
> >
> >On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Edna Y Morales <eymorale@us.ibm.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm working on allowing the CLI to add any platform regardless of
> >>whether
> >> the OS supports it. Basically you would add the platform, get a warning
> >> stating that you won't be able to build for that platform, and then just
> >> throw an error when an attempt to build is made. While looking into
> >>this,
> >> I've noticed that there are checks in multiple places that are
> >>preventing
> >> this. The first one is the check in cordova-lib that verifies the OS
> >> supports the platform. I am changing that to give a warning to the user
> >> instead of throwing an error. Then the check_reqs script for individual
> >> platforms is called both in the create script and the build script. I'm
> >> wondering if the check is required in the create script, when it's just
> >> going to get called again in the build script. My plan is to remove the
> >> check from the create script if there is nothing in there that requires
> >>a
> >> platform specific environment.
> >>
> >> Any comments or feedback would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Edna Morales
>
>

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