+1 same a Brian, adding Homebrew is a barrier to some. we already requried npm git, lets not add, lets remove like we are doing with "git" by using npm for acquiring the platforms.
And yes I have seen ios-deploy get more stable, and thanks to Shaz and others. Be worth looking into adopting ios-deploy as a first class citizen under Cordova project, and/or looking why libimobiledevice is more stable and learning from approach to implementation to make iso-deploy more stable. --Carlos On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > I can't say I've had much trouble with ios-deploy except always forgetting > to install it on a fresh machine. Again, would be good to land that as a > dep in the CLI directly. (Or in the platform package.json when we start > using npm for that.) > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> > wrote: > > > Agreed. The advantage though, is that ios-deploy is a bit flakey > > (although *much* better than it used to be thanks to Shaz). Perhaps > > what we could do is have our scripts work with either one. > > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > 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... > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > -- Carlos Santana <csantan...@gmail.com>
