refactor!: drop platform binaries

[erisu]

Motivation and Context

This PR:

• Removes all platform binaries that are not required for compatibility to Cordova CLI.
• Refactored the update process to remove excessive hops/function calls.
• Removed some unneeded comments from version binary.
• Updated create.spec.js to use JS methods for creating and building.

Description

• Drop create binaries
  • Update create.spec.js
• Drop build binaries
  • Update create.spec.js
• Drop update binaries
• Drop test binaries
  • This binary has never been used since 2012. It was referencing a binary that was renamed in 2012. If we want to add mobile-spec, it should be done in a separate PR and done with GH Actions Workflows.
• Drop check_req binaries
• Drop clean binaries
• Drop log binaries
• Drop run binaries
• Cleanup version binaries
• Drop uncrustify binary & config
  • This binary referenced a npm module that has not been in our repo for a long time.
  • It was not used for over 2~3+ years.
  • The npm module has not been updated over 7 years.
• Drop list-emulator-build-targets binary
• Drop list-started-emulators binary
• Drop start-emulator binary

Testing

• npm t
• GitHub Actions
• Cordova CLI 10.0.0 (cordova-lib@10.1.0)
  • cordova create
  • cordova platform add ../cordova-ios-7.0.0-dev.tgz
  • cordova platform update ../cordova-ios-7.0.0-dev.tgz
  • cordova prepare ios
  • cordova build ios
  • cordova info
  • cordova requirements
  • cordova platform
  • cordova run ios
  • cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-device

Checklist

• I've run the tests to see all new and existing tests pass
• I added automated test coverage as appropriate for this change

[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 0% with 2 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 75.03%. Comparing base (a6044dd) to head (f732de5).
Report is 140 commits behind head on master.

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[erisu]

Other binaries & scripts that will need reviewing... Maybe another PR?

• apple_ios_version
• apple_osx_version
• apple_xcode_version
• cordova_plist_to_config_xml
• list-devices
• list-emulator-build-targets
• list-emulator-images
• list-started-emulators
• start-emulator

I believe some of these could be removed and/or merged into some JS file(s) and exported.

[raphinesse]

Great to see this happening. I left a few comments for now. Full review pending!

[raphinesse]

We should also remove hooks/ if we remove uncrustify.

[raphinesse]

Other binaries & scripts that will need reviewing... Maybe another PR?
...
I believe some of these could be removed and/or merged into some JS file(s) and exported.

The following bins are used outside of cordova-ios and should be left alone for now:

apple_ios_version
./lib/src/plugman/util/default-engines.js
43:            { platform: 'ios', scriptSrc: path.join(project_dir, 'cordova', 'apple_ios_version') },

apple_osx_version
./lib/src/plugman/util/default-engines.js
45:            { platform: 'ios', scriptSrc: path.join(project_dir, 'cordova', 'apple_osx_version') },

apple_xcode_version
./lib/src/plugman/util/default-engines.js
41:            { platform: 'ios', scriptSrc: path.join(project_dir, 'cordova', 'apple_xcode_version') },

list-devices
./lib/src/cordova/targets.js
35:    const caller = { script: 'list-devices' };
37:    const cmd = path.join(projectRoot, 'platforms', platform, 'cordova', 'lib', 'list-devices');

list-emulator-images
./lib/src/cordova/targets.js
42:    const caller = { script: 'list-emulator-images' };
44:    const cmd = path.join(projectRoot, 'platforms', platform, 'cordova', 'lib', 'list-emulator-images');

These are not used outside of cordova-ios and could be removed in this PR:

• cordova_plist_to_config_xml
• list-emulator-build-targets
• list-started-emulators
• start-emulator

[erisu]

Yes the pre-commit hook can be removed. I didn't notice it and it does not get runned.

[erisu]

@raphinesse I will excluded cordova_plist_to_config_xml from the dropping for now as it is written in a log output.

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/blob/master/CordovaLib/Classes/Public/CDVViewController.m#L155

Alternative message will need to be decided and maybe we could keep the script in some folder for handy scripts but not release it with the packages.

[raphinesse]

@raphinesse I will excluded cordova_plist_to_config_xml from the dropping for now as it is written in a log output.

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/blob/master/CordovaLib/Classes/Public/CDVViewController.m#L155

Alternative message will need to be decided and maybe we could keep the script in some folder for handy scripts but not release it with the packages.

I think the script and log message can both be removed without replacement. It's a python script that is supposed to convert Projects to the Cordova 2.3 format:

cordova-ios/bin/cordova_plist_to_config_xml

Line 21 in a6044dd

Converts a project's Cordova.plist file into a config.xml one. This conversion is required for Cordova 2.3.

But it might indeed be wise to do that in a separate PR and decide how to handle that whole if statement that is seemingly handling a very old legacy case.

[raphinesse]

Yet another thing I noticed: we should be able to remove all remaining *.bat files. As mentioned in apache/cordova-android#1100:

We could remove all the *.bat counterparts though, since execa (which is used to run the binaries) also implements shebang-lookup on Windows. This will break compatibility to any CLI version <10, since we did not yet use execa then.

Should we do that as well, then?

[raphinesse]

Great stuff! Always happy when we can delete a few kLoCs 💪

Don't forget to check my last two comments, but feel free to merge as-is if you want.

[erisu]

Since we already removed it from the Android platform and released it, maybe it is safe to remove it from here as well?

I wonder if anyone has any concerns, even though it was already removed in Android... If we remove it and later it is seen as an issue, we can easily add back as a patch release.

[raphinesse]

I'd remove the bat files. That's my 2¢

[erisu]

OK, the three last bat files were removed:

• bin/apple_ios_version.bat
• bin/apple_osx_version.bat
• bin/apple_xcode_version.bat