We would like to have the package generation as part of our build. We run on Windows 7 or Windows Server. Do you have a recommended way of creating the zip as part of the script on windows. Any suggestions for a compression utility?
Your best bet would likely be the appworks Builder Beta found here:
AppWorks Beta Builder
Its a node.js based packager for appworks apps. The only issue could be that it only supports apps (not services) at the moment.
Our team uses the Windows native zip.exe in our build scripts. Type 'zip' for options; you probably want -r.
For automated building of both apps and services, we use ant to make a .war file, then rename to .zip; for apps, this all happens after zip.exe has made the mobile.zip.
@Ben thanks ben for the info. This looks great, now just add the automatic upload to OTAG and it'll be even better.
@John I decided to use 7za.exe which is pretty much the same as zip.exe, not all developers on our team have npm installed, so this works out better.
