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... >> > >> > >>
