I generally prefer json whenever possible as well, so if its feasible to change I'de give that a +1, but I'm not sure how many plugins out there already use the manifest based structure.
As far as creating a second manifest just to register with a universe, this isn't unheard of may have benefits, but its yet another barrier for entry for 3rdparty plugin devs. It would be really awesome if sharing plugins with the world were as simple as providing a git repo+tag+directory. I'm not sure I buy the versioning argument, whatever structure we come up with for version dependancies will have the same likelihood of changing over time no matter which file we put it in. -Michal On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Anis KADRI <anis.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah the only issue with plugin.xml is that it's ....XML :-D > > It would be so much easier to have it stored in JSON. We can make plugman > parse the XML from a remote source but I would rather store everything in > JSON. > > Also there can be multiple versions of plugin.xml. I think that is a good > enough reason to store the relevant data about plugins (compatible cordova > versions with a given plugin version, dependencies, etc...) in an > easy-to-read format (JSON). There is a bit of duplication yes but it's for > a good cause and the gain is huge. > > The submission process would be: > - A plugin author submits a new plugin, gives it a version and specifies > which version of cordova it was tested on. > - A new version of Cordova comes out and requires the plugin author to > update their plugin to stay compatible. > - We start building the Cordova version <=> plugin version mapping like > that. > > Thoughts ? > > -a > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > makes sense to me; we'll likely want to query on that stuff eventually > > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> > > wrote: > > > Should the universe just keep a copy of a plugin.xml so that it can > have > > a > > > list of plugin dependancies and everything? plugin.xml will already > > have a > > > list of compatible cordova versions, right? > > > > > > Then the universe can manage a reverse mapping if it wants fast access. > > > > > > -Michal > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > > > >> A plugin should specify the Cordova versions it supports too. > > >> > > >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > >> > I am sure we all agree to this. Want to get a sense of how it will > > >> > happen. Anis you mentioned you need Braden to commit the JS stuff > > >> > first? > > >> > > >
