Yes, please! Descriptive errors would go a long way to making the tools easier to use. At least it would point at a specific reason for failure vs the current vague message.
______________________________ Kerri Shotts photoKandy Studios LLC Sent from my iPhone ๐ฑ Phone: +1 (312) 380-1035 ๐ Web: http://photokandy.com Twitter: @photokandy On Jan 20, 2013, at 22:14, Simon MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > -1 > > We should just make the windows scripts work better. Needs more descriptive > failures when something is not setup correctly. > > Simon Mac Donald > http://hi.im/simonmacdonald > > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Anis KADRI <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -1 >> >> I (and most people) just want to get going and don't like dependencies. >> We're already requiring nodejs for a lot of the stuff we do. >> >> If you're referring to the Android windows scripts. I believe they work >> fine. If there are any issues with them, people should report them just as >> they would report any other issue. >> >> There is one outstanding issue on Windows that I will fix next week. >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1961 >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Kerri Shotts <[email protected] >>> wrote: >> >>> Just my 2ยข: people are already complaining about the number of parts that >>> need to be installed -- do we really want to add yet another? I realize >> it >>> would make the scripts easier, but the more moving (third party) parts >> that >>> have to be installed prior to using PhoneGap (especially those that >> aren't >>> required for the platform's SDK), the higher the barrier to entry. (But >>> then again, maybe that's a good thing...?) >>> >>> ___________________________________ >>> Kerri Shotts >>> photoKandy Studios, LLC >>> >>> On the Web: http://www.photokandy.com/ >>> >>> Social Media: >>> Twitter: @photokandy, http://twitter.com/photokandy >>> Tumblr: http://photokandy.tumblr.com/ >>> Github: https://github.com/kerrishotts >> https://github.com/organizations/photokandyStudios >>> CoderWall: https://coderwall.com/kerrishotts >>> >>> Apps on the Apple Store: >>> >>> https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/photokandy-studios-llc/id498577828 >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jan 20, 2013, at 8:14, Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm sure this has come up some time in the past, but why not require >>> cygwin >>>> so that our scripts will work on windows? Cygwin has been a requirement >>> of >>>> most of the windows projects I've worked on in the past (when at >>> different >>>> companies). >>
