[jira] [Commented] (CB-3364) README not up to date

["Angela Fowler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Angela Fowler commented on CB-3364:
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Thanks for the new version. I still have some questions about the README. 

The "Cordova Android Developer Tools" section talks about installing the dependencies however the package.json does not contain any dependencies. It contains a "bin" which maps command names to local file names.
"bin":          {
    "create":   "./create",
    "bench":    "./bench",
    "autotest": "./autotest",
    "BOOM":     "./BOOM",
    "test":     "./test"
  },
However the only command in the bin directory is create (and also update which is not in package.json bin).
The autotest and  test exist in the cordova-cli project but only for ios. 
I could not find bench or BOOM.

Secondly, the create script is a bash script. There is also a create.js and create.bat for Windows which does not appear to require npm. 
Is there any use for npm on Windows in cordova-android?

Thirdly, is this how npm looks when correctly installed for cordova-android? Could it have failed somehow because the repository is pointing to incubator? 
c:\development\cordova-2.7.0\cordova-android\bin>npm list npm WARN package.json cordova-android-cli@0.0.1 No README.md file found!
cordova-android-cli@0.0.1 c:\development\cordova-2.7.0\cordova-android\bin
└── (empty)

Note : I've used npm successfully in cordova-js which has several dependencies installed and listed.

                
> README not up to date
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: CB-3364
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-3364
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Android
>    Affects Versions: 2.6.0, 2.7.0
>         Environment: Windows
>            Reporter: Angela Fowler
>            Assignee: Joe Bowser
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: documentation
>
> Some of this also applies to the readme at https://github.com/apache/cordova-android
> 1. Instructions to move the codec jar to the libs folder but this is done in Windows create.js script. Maybe the bash script doesn't download it, perhaps split up the instructions for Windows and Linux/Unix?
> 2. Instructions to install node.js and npm to use the create script but I had problems with npm and uninstalled it. I created projects with create.bat (runs create.js) and use the emulator etc in Eclipse so it would be nice if the README gave more detail about what npm is really needed for.
> 3. Contains references to http://incubator.apache.org/cordova/ and https://github.com/KentBeck/junit which no longer exist
> Also the bin\package.json also refers to the incubator site which doesn't exist
> "url": "http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-cordova-android.git"
> Should a separate issue be created for this?

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