Well, if platforms are a build artifact, then they would not be in version control anyway.
In my opinion, the feature is not worth the risk of the changes it requires. @purplecabbage risingj.com On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Josh Soref <jso...@blackberry.com> wrote: > Cross platform developers with remote build systems. > > I'm currently doing work on a mac, but I spent a bit of my time w/ a > Windows machine, and a bit w/ a Linux machine. I often have shared file > systems (smb:, or .git, or whatever). > > It's moderately annoying that I have to be on my mac in order to do some > manipulation, and on an ubuntu box to do some manipulation, and on a > windows box to do some manipulation. > > Ok, I take that back, if I had to do that, I'd be pissed. > > On 10/17/14, 4:30 PM, "Jesse" <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >I don't see a ton of value in this, but I do see a lot of risk. > >Platform scripts + hooks are called for any changes to plugins (add/rm) so > >you are going to have multiple points of failure. > >Who does this feature help? > > > >@purplecabbage > >risingj.com > > > >On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Edna Y Morales <eymor...@us.ibm.com> > >wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm working on allowing the CLI to add any platform regardless of > >>whether > >> the OS supports it. Basically you would add the platform, get a warning > >> stating that you won't be able to build for that platform, and then just > >> throw an error when an attempt to build is made. While looking into > >>this, > >> I've noticed that there are checks in multiple places that are > >>preventing > >> this. The first one is the check in cordova-lib that verifies the OS > >> supports the platform. I am changing that to give a warning to the user > >> instead of throwing an error. Then the check_reqs script for individual > >> platforms is called both in the create script and the build script. I'm > >> wondering if the check is required in the create script, when it's just > >> going to get called again in the build script. My plan is to remove the > >> check from the create script if there is nothing in there that requires > >>a > >> platform specific environment. > >> > >> Any comments or feedback would be appreciated. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Edna Morales > >
