+1 I want this to go over more than a "Works on my machine" test before I land this in master.
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: > I think it's worth investigating and having a working prototype but would > caution against immediately merging in until different folk have had a > chance to play with it and make sure our end-user dev experience is cool. > > On 12/5/12 12:02 PM, "Gord Tanner" <gtan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Correct. This would be for any cordova BlackBerry 10 APIs (not external > >plugins). > > > >This will allow us the native compile step for Cordova that we don't have > >access to with WebWorks (that other platforms have). > > > >The key for this is flexibility. Nothing is changing with this now but > >allows us more tools to support BlackBerry 10 Cordova in the future. > > > > > >On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Drew Walters <deedu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Making sure I understand the steps: > >> > >> 1. User downloads and installs BlackBerry 10 Native SDK and Cordova. > >> 2. Executing the create script to create a project will somehow > >>determine > >> if the user has the WebWorks SDK and if not... > >> 3. Clone the WebWorks SDK using git. > >> 4. Build the WebWorks SDK. > >> 5. Update the project.properties for the project to point at the built > >> WebWorks SDK. > >> > >> I would prefer to not dynamically clone and build the WebWorks SDK as > >>part > >> of Cordova project creation, seems like that could be prone to issues. > >> > >> I would tend to think the majority of developers would not be building > >> custom plugins for their application. Would the native SDK be required > >>by > >> Cordova end developers if Cordova for BlackBerry 10 contains some native > >> (C++) plugins? > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Gord Tanner <gtan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > Currently for developing for BlackBerry 10 the user needs to download > >>and > >> > install the WebWorks SDK. [1]. > >> > > >> > This SDK is opensource and available from github [2] and users are > >>able > >> to > >> > clone and build the SDK with the native development tools available > >>[3]. > >> > > >> > I would like to switch the BlackBerry 10 platform for cordova to use > >>the > >> > NDK and clone WebWorks from github. The only difference a cordova > >> > developer would notice would be what download we tell them to install > >>in > >> > the documentations, everything else would be handled by the > >>./bin/create > >> > script and ./cordova/* scripts pointing where the WebWorks SDK lives. > >> > > >> > This preps us to have the tools available on the developers machine to > >> > build any native extensions that may or may not be needed for > >>BlackBerry > >> 10 > >> > development. > >> > > >> > [1] https://developer.blackberry.com/html5/download/ > >> > [2] https://github.com/blackberry/BB10-Webworks-Packager > >> > [3] http://developer.blackberry.com/native/beta/ > >> > > >> > >
