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.
>>>
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