I recently got started with Cordova and this was one of my biggest problems. It would be even better if the command could provide hints on how to fix the issues.
Regards, Taylor Gibb CEO and Founder - Developer Hut | Microsoft MVP | FoRG From: Shazron Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 8:56 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org +1 This will be great for users On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Parashuram N (MS OPEN TECH) <panar...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Hi, > > One of the main problems a lot of developers seem to have is the issue to > setting up their machines for building various platforms. This came out from > the Stack overflow survey, and the number of questions on stack overflow, > twitter. Etc. > > I thought it would be helpful to have a check_reqs command exposed at the CLI > level. This is similar to `brew doctor` or `appium doctor`. The idea is > > > 1. Have a way for the user to see if they have all dependencies (like > JAVA_HOME or ANDROID_HOME) set up? This happens at build time, but moving it > out to a CLI level command where you can run cordova check_reqs (or something > similar) would be useful to the users. > > 2. Today, the build command shows one error at a time. The check_reqs > could run all the checks, and show a summary of the issues so that the user > can fix them all, instead of fixing one, running build, fixing again, etc. > > What does the community think of this idea ? Can we implement a prototype and > see if this is useful to our developers ? > Note that this does not change or break existing functionality - it just > exposes the already existing check_reqs in the CLI. Build will continue to > call check_reqs. > > Please vote on this proposal, or raise any concerns you may have. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
