I think we should add a Guide for Plugin Packaging --- things will move quicker, and b/c src is more canonical it is more likely to encourage contrib.
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Filip Maj <[email protected]> wrote: > Go with Anis' (imhotep) plugman tool as the defacto plugin installation > tool, until we get it into an Apache repo (probably cordova-cli?). It was > based on Andrew's plugin spec and pluginstall tool but started deviating > slightly once we (Cordova) wanted to support more robust use cases > (uninstallation, for example). > > Andrew's original work for the plugin spec and pluginstall had, as its > goal, supporting PhoneGap Build use cases, which do not include > uninstallation, and also did not (and do not) take into account platforms > other than Android and iOS. > > I suggest we move relevant bits for the spec over to the Cordova wiki and > work from there. > > On 12/27/12 6:45 AM, "Michal Mocny" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>I do not mean that one or the other is incorrect, but there are small >>differences in content and text formatting. Small matter for sure, but >>since they are being modified independently I wasn't sure which is the >>"right" version to point to (esp since both readme's claim to not be >>official cordova document). I think I am hearing >>https://github.com/imhotep/plugman esp since that is where ongoing work is >>being done. >> >> >>On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Anis KADRI <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Could you elaborate a little bit on the differences ? >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Michal Mocny <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > So the docs in https://github.com/imhotep/plugman differ slightly from >>> > https://github.com/alunny/cordova-plugin-spec >>> > >>> > And the Readme in phonegap-plugin doesn't do a good job of pointing >>>the >>> > right place to look (other than indirectly through Shaz's post). >>> > >>> > Shall I add a line to the readme pointing to >>> > https://github.com/alunny/cordova-plugin-spec ? >>> > >>> > -Michal >>> > >>> > >>> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Don Coleman <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> > >>> > > +1 for using Andrew's cordova-plugin-spec >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > > >>> > > > This is pretty close to Lunny's pluginstall spec: >>> > > > >>> > > > https://github.com/alunny/cordova-plugin-spec >>> > > > >>> > > > For which the tools are being built. View the current >>> > > > phonegap/phonegap-plugins repo as a stepping stone. It bought us >>>time >>> > > > to sorted out our own backyard before inviting everyone in to >>>play. >>> =) >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Michal Mocny <[email protected]> >>> > > wrote: >>> > > > > Seems that our thirdparty plugins are platform-centric; with >>> > javascript >>> > > > not >>> > > > > written to be shared across platforms. >>> > > > > >>> > > > > Even if individual contributors are not willing to write >>> > > implementations >>> > > > > for other platforms, or if a plugin only really applies to a >>>single >>> > > > > platform, I think we should still provide good plugin structure >>> > > > conventions >>> > > > > that could scale to multiple platform implementations in the >>> future. >>> > > > > >>> > > > > As far as I'm aware, this was the case with core plugins at some >>> > point, >>> > > > and >>> > > > > we made a big change to unify the js, right? >>> > > > > >>> > > > > Well, I think that plugin structure should be more like: >>> > > > > >>> > > > > plugin_name/ >>> > > > > - common/ [js code] >>> > > > > - platform/ >>> > > > > - ios/ [native code] >>> > > > > - android/ [native code] >>> > > > > - etc.. >>> > > > > >>> > > > > and less like we have now >>> > > > > >>> > > > > ios/plugin_name/ >>> > > > > - [js code] >>> > > > > - [native code] >>> > > > > >>> > > > > android/plugin_name/ >>> > > > > - [js code -- different api] >>> > > > > - [native code] >>> > > > > >>> > > > > I don't think we need to redo whats there now, but it would be >>>nice >>> > to >>> > > > > decide on a structure, put up a skeleton for starting with, and >>> > mention >>> > > > it >>> > > > > in the Readme. >>> > > > > >>> > > > > (I ask before I'm going to be adding an android version of >>> > > > WebNotifications >>> > > > > some day, and I really don't want to fork the JS) >>> > > > > >>> > > > > -Michal >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > >>> >
