I agree with you, Andrew. Bryan, judging by this thread, it doesn't look like we'll be switching over to node.js for all platforms, just for android/bb.
On 8/7/13 7:38 AM, "Andrew Grieve" <agri...@chromium.org> wrote: >I should also add that when I installed node on windows XP, it had no >other >dependencies and was far easier to install than android's other >dependencies (android sdk, eclipse, JDK). > >However, I did also find that at least one of node's apis (getline) didn't >work on windows. We'll have to still test on all platforms for most >changes. > >I think it'd also be a good idea to either not use any npm dependencies, >or >to commit the node_modules directory if we do. That way our users don't >need to worry about running "npm install" > > >On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> >wrote: > >> +1 for Android. >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Bryan Higgins >><br...@bryanhiggins.net>wrote: >> >>> All BB scripts are already written in node, except for check_reqs. It's >>> hard to check for the existence of node using node. :) >>> >>> If other platforms go that way, we should standardize the location of >>>the >>> scripts. I'd like to see them directly invoked by CLI rather than going >>> through the shell. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Anis KADRI <anis.ka...@gmail.com> >>>wrote: >>> >>> > +1 if we can somehow automate a user-level node installation (or >>> > package it somehow). >>> > >>> > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: >>> > > That's a fair answer! I concur. The main win for me is in android >>>+ BB >>> > > land, for the reason you name, Jesse. >>> > > >>> > > On 8/6/13 3:24 PM, "Jesse" <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > > >>> > >>I only think this should be done for the multi-OS platforms. >>> > >>Elsewhere it is just a make work project IMHO. >>> > >>I have spent a lot of time ensuring that I was not introducing >>> > >>dependencies, then we add node, and we get 600 deps. >>> > >> >>> > >>@purplecabbage >>> > >>risingj.com >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > >>On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: >>> > >> >>> > >>> I would like to introduce node.js as a dependency for the >>>platform >>> > >>> libraries, so that the platform scripts (bin/create, cordova/run, >>> etc) >>> > >>>are >>> > >>> written in node. >>> > >>> >>> > >>> Pros: >>> > >>> - For multi-OS platforms (Android, BlackBerry), this reduces >>> committer >>> > >>> cognitive load as the scripts do not need to be authored in two >>> > >>>different >>> > >>> script languages (I.e. Shell for unix-y Oses, Wscript for >>>Windows) >>> > >>> - consistency in tool/script language. Cordova-js, coho, cli and >>> > plugman >>> > >>> are all written on top of node.js. >>> > >>> >>> > >>> Cons: >>> > >>> - Introducing a new dependency >>> > >>> >>> > >>> NB: This is separate from platform-spec; I would like to see >>> > >>>platform-spec >>> > >>> created/used regardless of the outcome of this thread. >>> > >>> >>> > >>> >>> > > >>> > >>> >> >>
