Replace SCons build scripts with SDK Builder

This is the top level issue for tracking the restructuring of the titanium_mobile repository and its build scripts.

This is a list of high level components and functional components:

Repository Changes

• Should we move titanium_mobile repo to titanium_mobile_old and create a new titanium_mobile repo?
  • What about pending pull requests?

Submodules

• Use git hooks for auto updating
• Support submodule-specific scripting (i.e. doc generation)

Experimentation

• Test submodules
• Hooks
• How to split repos and keep history (filter subtree?)
• Branch management

Splitting up the titanium_mobile repo

• Move android, iphone, and mobileweb into separate repos
  • Rename iphone to ios
• Add supported OSes to package.json
• Move anvil, apidocs to separate repos
• Move support/templates, support/node_modules, and package.json to root

Remove deprecated directories/files

• bugtests
• demos
• drillbit
• site_scons
• Remove all unused Python scripts
• Remove support directory

Replace scons with a node.js-based build system

• Document current scons process
• Responsible for managing the submodule'd platforms
• Compile platform-specific resources (in parallel)
• Install SDK locally
• Assemble distribution files per operating system (Mac, Linux, Windows)
• Compile documentation
• Download npm dependencies
• Manage branches and releases via a configuration file
• Integration with Jenkins CI server
• Minimal dependencies
  • No global libraries (i.e. jake)
  • Build dependency's node_modules directory must NOT conflict with node_modules needed for SDK builds

Continuous Integration

• Create OS specific CI servers for monitoring specific platform repos
• Run Anvil on each master/major.minor merge
• Pre-compile V8
• Fetch latest platform-specific builds from S3, then assemble release
• Upload builds to S3

Suggestion is to first start with ensuring BB and Windows Mobile are integrated into the existing process (they are currently stand-alone repos_ and then proceed to split out titanium_mobile into separate repos once that process is well tested.

Estimate time for tasks and various options.