Accidentally didn't send this to the list:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:03 AM Subject: Re: Cordova Debug Mode To: Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: > > What do we mean that the CLI doesn't have a way to release software? Maybe > not using a single command, but you certainly can with the workflow. > OK, so, just for the sake of argument, I've gone through the full development process with the CLI and I'm looking to publish an app on Google Play? (I'm not even going to touch iOS, because that doesn't even work on my box) How does one do that with the CLI? There's nothing in this doc here: http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.1.0/guide_cli_index.md.html#The%20Command-line%20Interface Nor is there anything when you type cordova and read the directions. There's nothing here that helps the user get from done to published. They're going to have to deal with the platform reality now, which looks like this: cd platforms/android cordova/build --release cd bin jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore my-release-key.keystore my_application.apk alias_name zipalign -v 4 your_project_name-unaligned.apk your_project_name.apk This is assuming that you have a keystore setup, which I would say most of our users don't have. Right now, the CLI doesn't do ANY of this and I don't know if the CLI should do any of this. It might be OK for us to assume that all builds the CLI are responsible for are just debug mode versions. However, to actually release a Cordova app, it actually has to make it to an App Store of some type, since that's where the people are and that's one of the main selling points of Cordova in the first place.
