Updated as described.

Now you no longer need to use the branch of cordova-cli, so I'm pretty sure
this is 100% compat.  Huzzah.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote:

> I wanted to originally, but you can --copy-from a www/ only (no
> config.xml), and then we need a template.  If I change cordova-lib to
> depend on app-hello-world then we can remove it.  Another reason to do so.
>
> -Michal
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Can we move the config.xml template out of cordova-lib/templates and into
>> app-hello-world as a part of this?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> > The current breaking change is that you cannot create a new project
>> using
>> > cordova-lib directly, without providing a project template to import
>> from.
>> >  cordova-cli works as it always has, and will provide the
>> app-hello-world
>> > as a default if you do not use --copy-from / --link-to.
>> >
>> > However, writing that explanation out now, I realize I could just change
>> > cordova-lib to be the one to depend on cordova-app-hello-world and do
>> the
>> > defaulting there, and not break compatibility.  I think I originally
>> > envisioned the cordova-lib script to be more "primitive", but its
>> already
>> > doing a tremendous amount of input handling and backwards compat
>> > workarounds.  Probably I can just make this adjustment.
>> >
>> > -Michal
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Nikhil Khandelwal <
>> nikhi...@microsoft.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Michal: I'm new to this area -  can you please elaborate why this
>> change
>> > > could potentially break downstream distributions? IS there an API
>> change?
>> > >
>> > > -Nikhil
>> > >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: mmo...@google.com [mailto:mmo...@google.com] On Behalf Of
>> Michal
>> > > Mocny
>> > > Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 1:12 PM
>> > > To: dev
>> > > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] publishing cordova-app-hello-world to npm and
>> > > adding as dependency of cordova-lib
>> > >
>> > > Alight, remote branches (named copy-from-app-hello-world) are created
>> for
>> > > cordova-lib, cordova-cli, and cordova-app-hello-world.
>> > >
>> > > There are still 2 failing cordova-lib tests, but I'm working to
>> resolve
>> > > that.  My actual end-to-end tests appear to be working with all use
>> > cases.
>> > >
>> > > Please, please: if you develop a downstream distribution that uses
>> > > cordova-lib directly (PhoneGap, BlackBerry, Ionic, etc), please try
>> this
>> > > out and see if it works for you.  I will do so for cca.  Please
>> forward
>> > > this to anyone on your team responsible for this work!
>> > >
>> > > -Michal
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Nikhil Khandelwal <
>> > nikhi...@microsoft.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > 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-h
>> > > > ello-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
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
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