That's a fair answer! I concur. The main win for me is in android + BB land, for the reason you name, Jesse.
On 8/6/13 3:24 PM, "Jesse" <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote: >I only think this should be done for the multi-OS platforms. >Elsewhere it is just a make work project IMHO. >I have spent a lot of time ensuring that I was not introducing >dependencies, then we add node, and we get 600 deps. > >@purplecabbage >risingj.com > > >On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> I would like to introduce node.js as a dependency for the platform >> libraries, so that the platform scripts (bin/create, cordova/run, etc) >>are >> written in node. >> >> Pros: >> - For multi-OS platforms (Android, BlackBerry), this reduces committer >> cognitive load as the scripts do not need to be authored in two >>different >> script languages (I.e. Shell for unix-y Oses, Wscript for Windows) >> - consistency in tool/script language. Cordova-js, coho, cli and plugman >> are all written on top of node.js. >> >> Cons: >> - Introducing a new dependency >> >> NB: This is separate from platform-spec; I would like to see >>platform-spec >> created/used regardless of the outcome of this thread. >> >>
