We should definitely stay away from passing json on the command line.  It's a 
nightmare, there has to be a better way.

John M. Wargo

> On Aug 10, 2014, at 12:39 PM, "Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon)" 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys, sharing implementation prototype for this feature[1] . please let me 
> know what do you think.
> 
> Highlights:
> 1. Introduced project settings class (ProjectMeta) which wraps config.json 
> and exposes project setting info including folders locations (now passed to 
> cordova methods instead of config.json)
> 2. Support of the following cordova folders and their default values (no 
> changes here)
>    ProjectMeta.defaultWwwPath = 'www';
>    ProjectMeta.defaultPlatformsPath = 'platforms';
>    ProjectMeta.defaultHooksPath = 'hooks';
>    ProjectMeta.defaultMergesPath = 'merges';
>    ProjectMeta.defaultPluginsPath = 'plugins';
> 
> 3. Non-default folders structure could be passed during 'cordova create ..'
>    cordova create hello io.cordova.hellocordova HelloCordova "{ ""id"": 
> ""io.cordova.hellocordova"", ""name"": ""HelloCordova"",  ""wwwPath"": ""."", 
> ""platformsPath"": ""cordova_components/platforms"",  ""pluginsPath"": 
> ""cordova_components/plugins"", ""hooksPath"": ""cordova_components/hooks"",  
> ""mergesPath"": ""cordova_components/merges""  }"
> 
> 4. More details and examples could be found here [2]
> 5. Source code could be found here: [3], [4]
> 
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7205
> [2] https://gist.github.com/daserge/aee3d3503c93accf3f0a 
> [3] https://github.com/MSOpenTech/cordova-lib/tree/configurable-directories/ 
> [4] https://github.com/MSOpenTech/cordova-cli/tree/configurable-directories/ 
> 
> Thx!
> Sergey
> From: Lisa Seacat DeLuca [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 11:50 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Directory Structure - CLI directory config proposal
> 
> I didn't have anything in mind as far as where the settings could be made 
> available.  I was more broaching the subject to see if it's possible or if 
> there would be a lot of code rewrite to make it work.  I'm not as familiar 
> with how the CLI works or how the code decides to place certain files in 
> certain locations on build and creation.  So defaulting to the rest of you 
> for that expertise.  IBM would like to see this happen from a product 
> standpoint.
> 
> 
> Lisa
> @LisaSeacat
> 
> 
> 
> Gorkem Ercan ---07/08/2014 03:36:54 PM---On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:02:03AM 
> -0400, Michal Mocny wrote: > Lets see what Lisa had in mind, but
> 
> From: Gorkem Ercan <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date: 07/08/2014 03:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Directory Structure - CLI directory config proposal
> ________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:02:03AM -0400, Michal Mocny wrote:
>> Lets see what Lisa had in mind, but I always assumed it fit into
>> .cordova/config.json.
> 
> Do you consider the contents of .cordova/config.json to be shared among
> developers of a project.
> 
> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Wondering what this will look like. config.xml settings?
>>> .cordova/config.json? A new config file?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Parashuram Narasimhan (MS OPEN TECH) <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> +1 to this proposal. If we are able to agree on a proposal, we can
>>>> contribute with code too.
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michal
>>>> Mocny
>>>> Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 7:52 AM
>>>> To: dev
>>>> Subject: Re: Directory Structure - CLI directory config proposal
>>>> 
>>>> I'd like to see this happen.
>>>> 
>>>> Specifically, I would like to see support for a directory structure like
>>>> this:
>>>> 
>>>> MyApp/
>>>>   cordova_components/
>>>>     platforms/
>>>>     plugins/
>>>>   bower_components/...
>>>>   node_modules/...
>>>>   ...Rest of contents of MyApp are basically www/
>>>> 
>>>> And this cannot use a symlink from MyApp/cordova_components/www/ to MyApp
>>>> for obvious reasons.
>>>> 
>>>> Basically, this would allow adding cordova to an existing project, as
>>>> opposed to creating a new cordova workspace.  It also plays nicer will
>>> all
>>>> the other tools.
>>>> 
>>>> -Michal
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Lisa Seacat DeLuca <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I wanted to start a discussion on this dev list about potentially
>>>>> adding a config setting for the CLI that defines the directory
>>>>> structure to use for creating and building cordova projects.  There
>>>>> are many products that are built on top of Cordova that have different
>>>>> directory structures than Cordova.  This can be scary to the product
>>>>> teams when it comes to migration as there is no guarantee that the
>>>>> directory structure for Cordova isn't going to drastically change.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is anyone aware of any semantic issues that would cause problems by
>>>>> creating the proposed config setting?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lisa
>>>>> 
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