ok typing bower install wasn't too hard ;) thanks for the heads up - I have been avoiding command line tools as I think they mystify web development and create a new set of dependencies (btw I totally get their use in a large project) but I could just be being stubborn.
Thanks again. On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 17:10:49 UTC, Eric Bidelman wrote: > > +mscales > > `git clone [email protected]:Polymer/pica.git; cd pica; bower install` should > get you all set up. > > Bower is not a build tool, it's a client-side dependency manager. In the > early days of Polymer, we were heavy users of submodules. As Rob mentioned, > it became a nightmare to rev up the dependencies. > > FWIW, we've been talking with the Bower team to support this kind of app > install use case. Hopefully in the future, one can just run: bower install > Polymer/pica > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Rob Dodson <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> The components directory is created when you run bower install. Using a >> package manager in this instance is helpful because it means we don't have >> to check in all of the required packages, and then manually version them up >> every time something changes (which is quite frequent since we're still in >> the early days of Web Components). Hope that helps! >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6:46:03 AM UTC-8, Matt Bourne wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to run the examples like Pica on my local server when I do I >>> see that there is a missing components directory being referenced. Is this >>> something being created by bower during build? If so I think that is >>> regressive. I should be able to run code from github without using a >>> particular build methodology? >>> >>> Apologies if this is a simple error on my part. >>> >> Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Polymer" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/74a7261d-8e33-45d9-b1f3-4e78924ccdb8%40googlegroups.com >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/5a8410b2-b496-4142-9638-aaee6b45c538%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
