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
