Christopher Hiller

@nextlevelbeard Looks like you'll need to tease more output from the subprocess out of wdio. The ellipsis in the log output... ``` usage: main.js [-h] [-v] {server,driver,plugin} ... ``` ...is...

an example of `tsc` output: ``` node_modules/@wdio/types/build/index.d.ts:23:13 - error TS2374: Duplicate index signature for type 'string'. 23 [key: string]: any; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ node_modules/@wdio/types/build/index.d.ts:26:13 - error TS2374: Duplicate index signature for type...

fwiw, the errors above were basically misdirection, which sucks to debug if you have no idea where to start. I only knew how to fix this because I am old

@jlipps ...which repo? microsoft/typescript?

I'd be in support of an `--update` flag to `install`. I think "update-or-install" as default behavior is probably a little too surprising.

AFAICT changing `NODE_PATH` at runtime has no effect. This would only affect child processes spawned by Appium. Is that the intent? I'm not really sure what this _does_. Can we...

@mykola-mokhnach I'd probably make two assertions here at minimum: 1. Perform an `appium driver install --source=local /path/to/fake-driver` (see function `installLocalExtension()` in `cli.e2e.spec.js`). Then use `fs.readdir()` to look at `$APPIUM_HOME/node_modules` and...

Appium doesn't support external config files. if there's a good reason to keep this one as an external config file, then I can work to add support. the new way...

in this case, if those config files are actually part of some other system's configuration, then I think it'd make sense to allow them to be read directly from disk.

but for example, the `allow-insecure` option, which previously allowed the loading of an external .csv file, no longer allows this. it's either a) specify a comma-delimited string on the command...