I like the idea of not supporting them until I hear a really great reason to support them. =)
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org> wrote: > We could have some sort of preprocessing step on the current directory, > that would prepare it for publishing. > > Maybe we can either annotate the directory with where the symlinks should > go, or else copy the files, if it's okay to do that. > > On Monday, August 18, 2014, Mark Koudritsky <kam...@google.com> wrote: > > > Plugins are published using "npm publish". As far as I understood, npm > does > > not include symlinks by design [1] when packing a package. So I'm not > sure > > about how we could start including symlinks while still using npm > packages > > as distribution method. > > [1] https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3310 > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org > > <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > > > I saw this come up on Friday on IRC -- I didn't see you in the channel, > > > Ally, or I would have pinged you. > > > > > > It's definitely an issue with plugman, either with the packaging or the > > > extraction, when there are symlinks present in the repo. > > > > > > I upgraded the severity of the CB-6092 to critical; we need to find a > > > solution for this. > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Ally Ogilvie <aogil...@wizcorp.jp > > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6092 > > > > > > > > Symlinks are broken when doing *cordova plugin add* <cordova plugin > > > > registry ID>. For example if a plugin makes use of the custom > framework > > > > tag: > > > > > > > > *<framework** src="platforms/ios/FacebookSDK.framework" custom="true" > > />* > > > > > > > > I think this is because of the way the registry plugins are being > > served > > > to > > > > plugman. > > > > I wanted a discussion here as this is *critical* for plugins using > > custom > > > > framework tags. > > > > > > > > *Desperately* need someone from Plugman / Registry team to give some > > info > > > > on what's going on for the community to patch it. > > > > > > > > Here's what the symlinks for .frameworks look like after plugin add > > from > > > > CPR > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/25327341 > > > > > > > > Windows boxes / Git clone and symlinks info: > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/11664406 > > > > > > > > -- > > > > <http://www.wizcorp.jp/>Ally Ogilvie > > > > Lead Developer - MobDev. | Wizcorp Inc. <http://www.wizcorp.jp/> > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > TECH . GAMING . OPEN-SOURCE WIZARDS+ 81 (0)3-4550-1448 | Website > > > > <http://www.wizcorp.jp/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/Wizcorp> | > > > > Facebook > > > > <http://www.facebook.com/Wizcorp> | LinkedIn > > > > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/wizcorp> > > > > > > > > > >
