[GitHub] [cordova-docs] dball-adashi opened a new issue #960: Warn not to use cygwin

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dball-adashi opened a new issue #960: Warn not to use cygwin
URL: https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs/issues/960
 
 
   # Warn not to use cygwin with cordova
   
   ## Motivation Behind Feature
   The cordova cli appears to be broken when performing certain operations which may lead to the abandonment or lack of adoption of cordova.
   
   ## Feature Description
   Just add a note on the installation page that not all operations work with cygwin.
   
   I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out why the command "cordova plugin add" would fail when attempting to add a plugin from anywhere except the npm repository.  Both the local file system and github failed similar to the following:
   
   $ cordova plugin add ../cloned/cordova-plugin-fcm-with-dependecy-updated --verbose --save
   No scripts found for hook "before_plugin_add".
   No version specified for ../cloned/cordova-plugin-fcm-with-dependecy-updated, retrieving version from config.xml
   No version for null saved in config.xml
   Attempting to use npm info for null to choose a compatible release
   Error: Not found : com.test.cordova.install
   
   I found this did work within "git bash" on windows.
   
   ## Alternatives or Workarounds
   Not using cygwin.  Instead use "git bash", Powershell, ...
   
   

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