This is becoming too much discussion for this feature. Andrew, I agree that the consequence of a magical git command is potentially much worse than accidentally adding a cordova platform. The only downside I see is if you pay for network data.
My criteria for choosing a feature includes evaluating how often I think this might happen. I expect this is a very rare occurrence. If people want this feature then by all means go for it, I am not blocking, just discussing. Personally I don't feel the additional bugs, code to support, and added complexity is worth the feature. I would put this in the category of 'wouldn't it be cool if ...' Michael, thanks for the history. cordova-cli is now a user facing tool, and is the only way that we (as cordova-pmc) push users to build projects. We cannot depend on the existence of third party tools to nicefy our workflow. This is a bigger discussion than this lone feature though. > On Jan 12, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Josh Soref <jso...@blackberry.com> wrote: > > Michael Brooks wrote: >> By the sounds of it, the Cordova team is not in agreement on whether we >> should auto-add platforms with the Cordova CLI. > > Seems like a reasonable summary > >> My two cents is: Fil Maj and I created the Cordova CLI to be an explicit >> CLI tool that produced parseable output for programmatic consumption. It's >> a tool for distributions to use. > > Good to know > >> The PhoneGap CLI, on the other hand, >> is a simple CLI that helps the user and produced human-readable output. >> It's a tool for human use. > > As a point of reference (which supports derivatives doing other things, > but doesn't have any impact on what cordova-cli should do), > webworks auto adds blackberry10 when you run `webworks create directory` > > >> That said, this philosophy has been long lost - the >> Cordova CLI is absolutely awful at programmatic usage. > > Yeah, we've mostly switched to using cordova-lib instead, and probably > places where we still use cordova-cli (as opposed to just falling through > to it) are bugs. > >> The implementation is trivial but this discussion is important. > > Agreed > >> As a team, the Cordova contributors need to decide what they want. >> The worse thing that can happen is for this feature to be force pushed >> into >> `master` without a positive consensus. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
