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Simon MacDonald commented on CB-1944:
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Well if you look at some of the threads on the mailing list many people on
Windows especially had trouble getting the creat script going because they were
missing one of the necessary programs from their PATH. I'd like to see the
create.bat script specifically identify which pieces are missing in order to
help people get up and running quickly. We lost a lot of goodwill on Android
2.2 as our simplified approach actually made things tougher for many folks.
I did a quick prototype on my PC but haven't had the time to get back to it.
> Create script on Android has to provide better error messages
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> Key: CB-1944
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1944
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Android
> Affects Versions: 2.2.0
> Reporter: Simon MacDonald
> Assignee: Simon MacDonald
> Fix For: 2.3.0
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> We moved to providing a source release that is compiled by the user via the
> "create" script. In order for this to work the user is required to install
> and setup:
> JDK
> Ant
> Android SDK
> If any one of those packages is missing from the Windows PATH then the script
> fails with a generic error message:
> Missing one of the following:
> JDK: http://java.oracle.com
> Android SDK: http://developer.android.com
> Apache ant: http://ant.apache.org
> This could be a lot better and based on the feedback on the I've seen on the
> mailing list we have a lot of upset users and we could make life a lot easier
> for them.
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