[jira] [Created] (CB-7143) OSX platform cannot be installed as described

["Tim Stewart (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Tim Stewart created CB-7143:
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             Summary: OSX platform cannot be installed as described
                 Key: CB-7143
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7143
             Project: Apache Cordova
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: OSX
    Affects Versions: 3.5.0
         Environment: OSX 10.9.4
            Reporter: Tim Stewart


Following instructions as per:

https://github.com/apache/cordova-osx

"Add the Cordova OSX Platform the a CLI project" [sic]

does not work.

I checked out cordova from master, completed all the npm linking as described in the linked instructions and checked cordova version:

3.5.0-0.2.7-dev

I then tried to follow this instruction: "patch the 2 projects with the patches provided in the patches directory to enable the osx platform". I expected to be able to download and git apply these patches in the git root for each of the two node modules - cordova-cli and cordova-plugman. However, they are not set up correctly for this, and produced errors:

error: platforms.js: No such file or directory
error: src/platform.js: No such file or directory

Indeed, the path locations in each patch do not seem to be vaild for any given location within either module. I thus ended up finding all files named platform.js and platforms.js (there are many, spread throughout the cordova-lib module within both cordova-cli and cordova-plugman), eyeballing them to see which files matched the patch changes, and copy/pasting the changes manually. (8 files in total, as the 4 "patched" files appear under cordova-lib in each cordova module.)

When running cordova platform add osx, I then got an error about an invaild location for the ios-parser. I found the incorrect line in the "patched" cordova/platform.js and changed it as follows:

parser : './metadata/ios_parser',

Following this I was able to add the osx platform and run the app.

Needless to say, this is a frustrating developer experience. I don't know why the osx platform information code is not included in cordova by default - it would seem to be fairly well isolated from effects on any other platform - but if it is going to be "upgradable" in this fashion, then the git patches should at least work. If they were designed to work (and ever did work) with a specific version of the cordova modules, or in a different location other than the git root, then that should be stated, instead of instructing the hapless developer to clone cordova from master and providing no further clues.



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