Sounds like a good idea to me. I've found our scripts fairly lacking in the error messages department. I think more checks and error messages would go a long way :)
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Mike Reinstein <reinstein.m...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm wondering if it makes sense for us to add some checks to the various > command line tools to check for the presence of required tools, and also > check for proper versions. For example the debug script for ios has: > > xcodebuild -project $PROJECT_NAME.xcodeproj -arch i386 -target > $PROJECT_NAME -configuration Debug -sdk $SDK clean build VALID_ARCHS="i386" > CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR="$PROJECT_PATH/build" > > Do you think it's appropriate for us to add checks to see if xcodebuild is > even available, and if xcodebuild -version returns >= required_version > number? > > This question came up as a result of work on the cordova-client project, > which wraps the lower level scripts that get packaged with each platform. > It seems like this should happen at the lower level, since it's already > encapsulating the build tools for each platform. Thoughts? > > -Mike >
