It is the latter. The idea is that there is a default directory structure that shall be defined by Cordova CLI, and the IDE can modify it, call tasks like prepare or compile directly from cordova-lib. The IDE could do clever things like copy only modified files, use symlinks, etc. From the hangouts discussion, it was agree that cordova-lib would expose APIs that shall be used by build systems, IDEs and the CLI. We need to finalize on that API.
I could volunteer to take the first stab at that API that cordova-lib suggests. Does that sound good ? -----Original Message----- From: Treggiari, Leo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 6:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Directory Structure - CLI directory config proposal Is the flexible directory structure being proposed so that the CLI can "conform" to a directory structure defined by the IDE, or so that a user can define the directory structure and both the CLI and the IDE use it? I'm an IDE developer, but I don't have a lot a sympathy for the former. The latter is useful. I don't understand why an IDE should think IT defines the directory structure, just like the CLI did prior to this proposal. Leo -----Original Message----- From: Parashuram Narasimhan (MS OPEN TECH) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Directory Structure - CLI directory config proposal Should the platform/plugin save/restore take care of the ability to restore platforms? That way, though the platforms folder is discernable, we do not have to necessarily delete it. The goal of able to re-create a project solely based on the checked-in information still stays. The user may choose to check in the user specific config if the entire team decides to use that as a project structure. They would not check the user-config in cases where individual users use different IDEs. -----Original Message----- From: Marcel Kinard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Directory Structure - CLI directory config proposal I don't want to dramatically increase the scope of this thread, but I'm wondering if this is the opportunity to get the platforms dir to be 100% generated and discardable between app builds. The goal being that then there is a clean line of what devs should check into SCM and what is in their .gitignore file. It also feels like there should be a slight difference between user-specific config that doesn't go into a team SCM (my copy of cordova-android is in /home/marcelk/customized), and project-specific config that does go into a team SCM (the layout of this meta config that describes where the project dirs are). And yes, it should be 100% compatible with today's directory structure.
