Why not iterate on the existing Plugin Development Guide [1] ? http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.2.0/guide_plugin-development_index.md.html#Pl ugin%20Development%20Guide
On 1/3/13 11:55 AM, "Brian LeRoux" <[email protected]> wrote: >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 >>>> > > > >>>> > > >>>> > >>>> >>
