(Still no word from ASF on the Apache VM: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6422)
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Braden Shepherdson <bra...@chromium.org>wrote: > Looks good! > > I'm wondering about the naming convention - does that mean we'll have to > change all our plugins from java.style.reverse.domains to singlewords? > > Braden > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org>wrote: > >> Will definitely try this out tomorrow! Super awesome! >> >> Where is the database hosted? I remember a while ago Mike was going to >> look >> into getting an Apache VM to host server things on. Did that come about? >> >> One of the things we'll hugely benefit from this is getting stats on what >> plugins people are installing. Is that a feature yet? >> >> Wondering what gets hosted on the server when you "plugman publish". I'm >> guessing a .tgz of your plugin... Is that right? Does it store the >> plugin.xml separately from the .tgz so that metadata can be queried from >> it? >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Anis KADRI <anis.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Sure, >> > >> > cordova-plugman is here [1] >> > >> > cordova-cli is here [2] >> > >> > the registry itself is here [3] and the website to browse plugins is >> here >> > [4] >> > >> > [1] http://bit.ly/1bKTvsd >> > [2] http://bit.ly/1bKTHYu >> > [3] http://registry.cordova.io >> > [4] http://plugins.cordova.io >> > >> > It's easy to setup your own registry and it's also easy to replicate >> from >> > one registry to the other. >> > >> > -a >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Steven Gill <stevengil...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Hey Anis, >> > > >> > > Sounds awesome! Can you share the repo links for the registry itself >> and >> > > any other repos that are related? >> > > >> > > >> > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Anis KADRI <a...@apache.org> wrote: >> > > >> > > > Hello, >> > > > >> > > > I wanted to update the list on my progress on this topic. I've been >> > > working >> > > > on this for the past month or so and I believe it will solve the >> issue >> > of >> > > > finding plugins for our users (core and 3rd party). >> > > > >> > > > I committed everything to plugman and cordova-cli under the >> > > > 'plugman-registry' >> > > > >> > > > Everything should be well documented under the project's README but >> I >> > > > should probably update the wiki and write a blog post as well. >> > >> I don't see the README updated with any of the new features (looking here: >> >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-plugman.git;a=blob_plain;f=README.md;hb=plugman-registry >> ) >> >> >> >> > > > >> > > > Now that 3.0 is released, I would like to merge this feature back >> into >> > > > master on both projects by the end of this week if possible. It >> would >> > be >> > > > great if folks try it out and give me some feedback. >> > > > >> > > > The registry is based on NPM and because of that, all of your >> plugins >> > > need >> > > > to be renamed using NPM's conventions: all lowercase and no spaces. >> > I've >> > > > already published some to plugins.cordova.io. >> > > > >> > > > plugman allows to install, adduser, publish, unpublish and search. >> > > > cordova-cli only allows installation and search. I think that plugin >> > > > authoring should be done with plugman as I am not sure what the flow >> > > would >> > > > look like with cordova-cli. This can change. >> > > > >> > > > The only difference between npm and plugman is the (un)installation >> > part. >> > > > Everything else is pretty much the same. Plugin authors are not >> > required >> > > to >> > > > write a package.json as this is automatically generated by the tool >> > from >> > > > the plugin.xml. I've added a few tags to the specification to >> support >> > > this >> > > > new use case. >> > > > >> > > > Let me know if you have any questions or requests. >> > > > >> > > > Anis >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > >
