I'm in favour of using "build," "run," and "install" because these commands
match the platform-scripts. They are also arguably more descriptive of
their resulting action.

Currently, the PhoneGap CLI also uses "build," "run," and "install" instead
of "compile,", "emulate," and "deploy." [1]

[1] https://github.com/mwbrooks/phonegap-cli#usage




On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote:

> Think we need a run cmd too. Specifying target makes sense.
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Braden Shepherdson <bra...@chromium.org>
> wrote:
> > I'm okay with adding a run command and/or emulate command to CLI.
> `cordova
> > run android` or similar? Since we (will soon) have these platform-level
> > scripts with uniform APIs, it shouldn't be hard to call them for each
> > platform.
> >
> > Braden
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The current command-line API has a few main "action" type commands:
> >>
> >> - compile (shells out to the "build" script)
> >> - prepare (copies over www assets into platform folders, prepares plugin
> >> files, that sort of thing)
> >> - emulate (deploys to an emulator)
> >> - build (alias for a prepare + a compile)
> >>
> >> ..and a few "setup" type commands:
> >>
> >> - platform add/rm whatever
> >> - plugin add/rm whatever
> >>
> >> My issue with this api is that it doesn't line up with the command line
> >> tooling design that we've agreed upon [1].
> >>
> >> Most of the time, users want to either get the app on a device, or on an
> >> emulator. We have a "run" platform-level script defined that does the
> >> run-on-device bits, and an "emulate" script that does the emulator
> >> launching + deploying to an emulator. The run command implicitly calls
> the
> >> platform-level "build" script to compile the app first.
> >>
> >> I would suggest in some manner exposing the "run" command. I'm open to
> >> suggestions on how to tweak the API. Ideally, I would like to slate
> these
> >> api changes for 3.0.
> >>
> >> Thoughts/comments/suggestions welcome!
> >>
> >> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/CommandLineToolingDesign
> >>
> >>
>

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