I like moving this to npm because Apache Git as a distribution mechanism for the hello world app has been less reliable than desirable in the past.
Thanks, Nikhil -----Original Message----- From: mmo...@google.com [mailto:mmo...@google.com] On Behalf Of Michal Mocny Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 12:08 PM To: Michal Mocny Cc: dev Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] publishing cordova-app-hello-world to npm and adding as dependency of cordova-lib Pushed first attempt to remote branches: - https://github.com/Apache/cordova-cli/tree/copy-from-app-hello-world - https://github.com/Apache/cordova-app-hello-world/tree/copy-from-app-hello-world Cleaning up cordova-lib is strictly required, though I think we should still take the opportunity to do so. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: > Jesse, I think not. The platform scripts just copy the bundled www/ > (its already included with the platform). > > This is only for the top-level project www/ of a cordova-cli project. > > I guess, though, that we could consider changing the platform create > scripts to import config.xml's, since they currently do not. This may > be difficult given that the format is different even though the name > is the same (platform vs project config). > > -Michal > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Jesse <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 >> Does this affect the ability to use an individual platform? >> ie. cordova-ios/bin/create ... >> Will platform create scripts need to change? >> >> >> >> @purplecabbage >> risingj.com >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@google.com> wrote: >> >> > This came up in the context of whitelist discussion, but wanted to >> bring it >> > to everyones attention. >> > >> > JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8597 >> > >> > We would like the default app to support installing the whitelist >> > plugin automatically using the new plugin auto-restore feature (If >> > you >> disagree, >> > discuss on the whitelist thread, that is not the topic of this post). >> > >> > However, the cordova-lib create script cannot support this feature >> > right now anyway (that is the topic of this post). I've outlined >> > in the JIRA >> how >> > we could fix that (open to feedback). >> > >> > TLDR; --copy-from already supports this, so lets just vastly >> > simplify cordova-lib create.js to just always do a --copy-from (or >> > --link-to), >> and >> > change cordova-cli to provide the default >> > --copy-from=./node_modules/cordova-app-hello-world. >> > >> > This also implies we can remove our last use of lazy_load from >> cordova-lib >> > (minus explicit git clones or platforms/plugins), and npm all the >> things! >> > >> > It also means a semver MAJOR change to cordova-lib that downstreams >> > directly using cordova-lib's create will need to adjust to. >> > >> > Thoughts? >> > >> > -Michal >> > >> > >
