Thanks for the detailed response Michal. With your permission, I¹d like to reprint this on my blog.
I will point out however that there was at least one time when the directory structure change broke something. I forget which version it was but at some point the CLI stopped making a .cordova folder and that broke Ripple. Not really a big deal, just FYI. ;) On 10/3/14, 9:58 AM, "Michal Mocny" <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: >The reason CLI is reporting that number is because we tried to go semver >in >an odd way (CAD-SEM) and CLI version was supposed to be just the SEM part >and the CAD was just informational -- which hasn't worked out so well. >The >next CLI release is going to drop the old SEM and turn the existing CAD >into the new SEM. i.e.: npm install -g cordova@rc you'll notice that its >just 3.7.0. > > >w.r.t. reporting installed version and not workspace created version: the >version of the CLI that was used to create a project should not be what is >important. Its the current versions of the platforms and plugins within >your workspace that are actually important. > >This is because when you upgrade your CLI, we will not use the version >that >was used to create the project any more. There have been proposals for >this, but its not implemented, we just assume you always want the latest >CLI to manage your workspace. > >This could become an issue if the CLI breaks compatibility with directory >structure / old platform/plugin structure, but that hasn't come up yet. >If >that *does* happen, we can introduce a "created-with" at that point, and >use the lack of "created-with" as a signal for old version. > >For what its worth, for cca we drop a "created-with-cca-version" file >inside your platforms/ folder, since we currently also pin platforms. >When >you upgrade your cca tool, we then know to prompt for a platforms upgrade. >I don't know if this will still be necessary with independent platform >releases. > >-Michal > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
