So, again, totally cool getting a 'better' solution in there BUT adding 10 mins to the install and requiring homebrew is a blocker. This needs to be less steps not more. Linux is a neat trick though you get that with the app harness family so I'm not feeling its worth the cost to install.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@google.com> wrote: > Thanks Darryl, confirmed that brew install libimobiledevice gives us > all we need. It took ~10 minutes to do its thing though. Still, might > be fine as a one-time step. > > For Ubuntu, most commands are available through apt-get, but not all > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm all for changing tools to something more reliable and more > > cross-platform. > > Thinking about the common user, not a dev -- we could fork just to > package > > it as a npm module mainly for users to easily install it (since we > require > > npm anyway) that way they can avoid another dependency. > > > > Not sure if this extra effort to npm package is worth it, if users want > this > > feature installing homebrew wouldn't be too much of a hassle, but it may > be > > a barrier for some. > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@google.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Shaz, wondering if you looked into using libimobiledevice instead of > >> ios-deploy. Seems like it's much more capable, works on Linux, and > >> well-maintained. > >> > >> http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ > >> > >> There are "idevice*" commands that match ios-deploy: > >> > >> `idevice_id -l` to list attached devices > >> `ideviceinstaller` to install/uninstall/list apps > >> `ideviceimagemounter` to mount the dev image > >> `idevice-app-runner` to launch an app > >> `idevicedebugserverproxy` to debug via lldb > >> > >> plus commands to: > >> > >> `ideviceinfo` to get device info > >> `idevicefs` to list/copy files to/from devices > >> `idevicesyslog` to tail the syslog > >> ... etc ... > >> > >> Only downside I can see is that for OSX, installing is a bit of a > >> pain. There's a brew package for ideviceinstaller, but not the other > >> tools. This random page worked for me: > >> https://github.com/bitbar/libimobiledevice-binaries, but we might want > >> something better... > > > > >
