I'll add the check whenever someone goes to the Keyboard manual test page.
Will re-visit once the cordova-plugins repo is up.


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote:

> After discussing with shaz, seems there is no good solution which does not
> involve action on the users' part, except to just be explicit about remote
> url.
>
> Instead, I think we are going to just remove the hard dependency, and have
> those mobile-spec tests fail unless you manually install the plugin.  Since
> there are no auto-tests for it, its fine.  Once we find the plugin a repo,
> we can add a local dependency for it.
>
> Side note: part of the problem stems from the fact that the mobile-spec
> dependency plugin sucks.  Its hard coded to look in the parent directory,
> instead of just running the tests for whichever plugin happens to be
> installed however/wherever it was installed from.
>
> -Michal
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> > The way we define dependencies is the problem.  The plugin author is
> > currently responsible for defining explicitly the location of the plugin
> to
> > fetch, instead of just the id&version and letting the system do its job.
> >
> > Andrew had a proposal in the past for a simple form of "local plugin
> > repository" that just used the local fs in a clever way.  Then, you could
> > add its id as a dependency even when its not in the public plugin
> registry,
> > and expect that mobile-spec from-master-branch to add a local mapping.
> >
> > Not sure if that work has even started, though.
> >
> > -Michal
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not a very big fan of this sub directory business anyhow. Too many
> >> ways
> >> to fail. It would be better, in my mind, if we aimed to always have one
> >> repo equals one package.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > if we had the cordova-plugins repo created, this won't be a problem.
> The
> >> > issue is not resolved yet:
> >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6902
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > It's checked into master (not in 3.2.x branch yet until this issue
> >> below
> >> > > is resolved).
> >> > >
> >> > > Should I add it in the dependency plugin?
> >> > >
> >> > > The problem is I have to add it as a url, not from a local repo
> (thus
> >> > > install requires an internet connection).
> >> > >
> >> > > This is because we can't switch to a branch _and_ a subdir of a
> local
> >> > repo
> >> > > (this is not a feature of the dependency tag).
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
>

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