It would be useful for plugin.xml to exclude a directory such as examples when copying. I think examples are important, especially for 3rd party plugins and it's convenient to keep examples in the same repo as the code.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Braden Shepherdson <[email protected]>wrote: > The common places to fetch the plugin are over the network, from the plugin > registry or from git. Therefore the tools are expecting to download exactly > the files that are needed by the plugin, plus or minus a README or > whatever. They expect local plugins to be self-contained, in a directory by > themselves. > > If this is from an example plugin that is being published, maybe we should > pull the plugin's parts into a "src" or "plugin" directory, that's a > sibling of "examples"? This flow is not supported, and I don't think it's > worth the work involved to go from a dumb copy to a careful copying of > exactly the member files of the plugin. > > Braden > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Don Coleman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I've seen this problem with cordova. My instructions for the examples > have > > people copy the example folder out of the project before installing the > > plugin as a work around. > > > > > > > > > On Oct 23, 2013, at 7:57 AM, Axel Nennker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > the above phonegap command fails (name to long) and I think it applies > to > > > cordova as well. > > > > > > plugin add seems to copy the whole directory into the app's plugins > > > directory. Which is wrong. > > > > > > > > > I am developing a phonegap plugin and inside the plugin's developement > > > folder I have a subfolder named examples. In this folder I created a > > > phonegap example project to show how the plugin might be used. I want > to > > > add the my plugin into this example app but "plugin add" dies because > it > > > tries to copy the whole plugin's folder into itself. > > > > > > Why isn't "plugin add" just copying the plugin.xml and all the files > > > (assets, js-modules etc) into the plugins folder? This would prevent > the > > > endless recursion and would just copy exactly those files that are > > needed. > > > > > > Am I missing something? > > > > > > cheers > > > Axel > > >
