Published it to npm!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview

Once a CLI release happens, we can update the docs to install it via plugin
ID.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org>
wrote:

> Once we publish this to npm (or the Cordova plugin registry) it will be
> much smaller; just containing the code that is absolutely required for the
> current version.
>
> I think that the only reasonable way to make the git repo itself smaller
> would be to move it to a new location (new name or new organization).
>
> We (Google's team) have used cordova-crosswalk-engine as a git submodule
> dependency for some time, in our mobile-chrome-apps repo, and I don't think
> we can just rewrite all of the old commits without also breaking all of our
> historical dependencies as well. (Filtering the repo like this will rewrite
> a large number of commits, which will certainly change their hashes,
> unfortunately).
>
> I'll do a bit more investigation today, but I think that the best solution,
> for almost all users, is to publish just the current source as a real
> cordova plugin, and not worry too much about the size of the git repo, as
> it only affects people who are actively developing on it. (And the size is
> no longer growing at that rate, so it is really only a one-time checkout
> cost)
>
> Ian
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Hu, Ningxin <ningxin...@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Could this be fixed on plugman's side with git clone --depth 1?
> >
> > It still downloads 63MB.
> >
> > In my experiment, I delete all unused branches, tags, and remove related
> > git objects. It can shrink the repo to 340KB with full history of master
> > branch.
> >
> > There is a good reference for git repo shrinking:
> >
> https://www.rallydev.com/community/engineering/shrinking-git-repository-move-githubcom
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -ningxin
> >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Hu, Ningxin <ningxin...@intel.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Crosswalk engine plugin is expected to work with upcoming Cordova
> > > > > Android
> > > > > 4.0.0 release.
> > > > >
> > > > > As I investigate, there are some issues need to be fixed:
> > > > > 1.  Update the README.md of cordova-crosswalk-engine. E.g no
> > > > fetch_libs.sh
> > > > > anymore. I managed to create a PR for this:
> > > > > https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/cordova-crosswalk-
> > > engine/pull/20
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >  Thanks, Ningxin -- that's great! I'll merge it in.
> > > >
> > > > 2. Shrink the repo size: e.g remove unnecessary  libxwalkcore.so
> etc.,
> > > > It
> > > > > impacts the plugin installation performance from github.com.
> Please
> > > > refer
> > > > > to https://github.com/huningxin/cordova-crosswalk-engine-1. It
> > > > > shrinks from 118MB to 340KB.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'll have to filter-repo on this; I'm not sure if there will be any
> > > > disruption to the GitHub repository because of it, but I'll do my
> best
> > > > to minimize that. I agree that it has become unnecessarily large
> > > > because of the included (and often updated) binary packages.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Any other issues?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > -ningxin
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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