Investigate how to deliver ADB to windows users without exhastive dependency list

[josefkarasek]

Two main dependencies are rsync and ssh. Both delivered as part of cygwin, e.g. my install guide[1]. Is there a way how to deliver only those 2 binaries?

Proposal No.1: windows support the notion of PATH envar, that way the binaries could be discovered.

[1] https://github.com/josefkarasek/docker101/blob/ca71af1d85283385c69ae5b57349e89c1e1cadaa/README.md#windows-or-mac-users

[maxandersen]

fyi, we plan to bundle cygwin as fallback in the windows installer.

@dgolovin are also experiementing with just exposing the mingw binaries so we can skip cygwin completely since mingw are part of vagrant.

[pschiffe]

I think that windows installer is desperately needed here, currently it's really pain to make adb work on windows... :-/

[mmalina]

@pschiffe the windows installer has been released and is available here among other places: http://www.jboss.org/products/devstudio/download/ It's called Platform Installer and it will install everything needed for CDK + JBoss Developer Studio.

[pschiffe]

@mmalina Great! Thanks for the heads up.

[mmalina]

@pschiffe you're welcome. I forgot to add a link for more details: http://tools.jboss.org/blog/ga-for-mars2.html#new-developer-studio-platform-installer-for-container-based-development