Plugman and cordova-cli both require a minimum 0.9.9 node. See the "engines" and "engineStrict" flags in package.json for the two repos. engineStrict when set to true will force npm to make sure the user's version of node adheres to what is listed under the "engines" prop.
On 6/19/13 1:15 PM, "Gord Tanner" <gtan...@gmail.com> wrote: >Still a -1, cordova (and all it's projects) should use the globally >installed version of node. > >If someone needs multiple versions of node the should probably use nvm [1] >to manage it. IMHO this is a user problem and not something we should >magically solve via bundled copies of node or hardcoded paths to specific >versions of node. > >I agree we should have a version of node we support, it just needs to be >consistent and common across all of our tools and require the user to have >that version range in their path. > >[1] - https://github.com/creationix/nvm > > >On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Bryan Higgins ><br...@bryanhiggins.net>wrote: > >> For 3.0 will there still be a ZIP file released by Apache? Will the >> instructions be download the latest version of node then run "npm >>install >> -g <path to cordova-cli>"? >> >> My assumption was the individual project templates will continue to work >> independently of CLI. >> >> Also, keep in mind that CLI invokes BB via shell scripts which in turn >>call >> node. So for environments where people need different versions of node >> installed, invoking CLI with an alternate node version will cause BB to >>be >> invoked via the globally installed version. Perhaps that is an edge >>case, >> but it's still something that needs to be supported by allowing them to >> configure node path for BB. >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Gord Tanner <gtan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I would expect they would have a supported node version when they >>type: >> > >> > "npm install cordova" >> > >> > which would do any version checks in the package.json [1] for >>supported >> > node versions >> > >> > [1] - >> > >> > >> >>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-cli.git;a=blob_plain;f= >>package.json;hb=HEAD >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Bryan Higgins <br...@bryanhiggins.net >> > >wrote: >> > >> > > So for Cordova 3.0 in general, users will be required to >>pre-install a >> > > minimum version of node globally? >> > > >> > > We have had issues where upgrading node breaks stuff. I'd like to >>avoid >> > > that and give users flexibility with their own system configuration. >> > > >> > > >> > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Gord Tanner <gtan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > > >> > > > -1 >> > > > >> > > > I would rather we just use the system version of node which would >>be >> > the >> > > > same version as the CLI. I can't think of any reason a specific >> > platform >> > > > (aka BlackBerry) would need a special version of a common >>dependency. >> > > > >> > > > Also I don't think you can bundle binaries in an apache release. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Bryan Higgins < >> > bhigg...@blackberry.com >> > > > >wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > I'd like to reopen the topic of bundling node js into the >> blackberry >> > > > > platform. >> > > > > >> > > > > I have personally gotten feedback from users of errors which >>were >> > > caused >> > > > by >> > > > > node version inconsistencies. We have since updated the >>check_req >> > > script >> > > > to >> > > > > test for the minimum version of node we require, but that is >>not an >> > > ideal >> > > > > solution since users may need a different node version installed >> > > globally >> > > > > for other software. >> > > > > >> > > > > At a minimum, I'd like to give users the option to point to an >> > > alternate >> > > > > version of node. I have logged a JIRA issue for that. [1] >> > > > > >> > > > > What I'd prefer to do, is bundle the node binaries into the >> > > distribution. >> > > > > That would completely eliminate the dependency. Users would only >> need >> > > to >> > > > > worry about setting up the native SDK. >> > > > > >> > > > > We already do this in the WebWorks SDK [2] >> > > > > >> > > > > I'm interested how the community feels about this. Are there any >> > > > licensing >> > > > > concerns in Apache hosting binaries without source? >> > > > > >> > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-3798 >> > > > > [2] >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> >>https://github.com/blackberry/BB10-Webworks-Packager/tree/master/third_pa >>rty/node >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >>
