Should we move this docs to cordova-discuss instead -https://github.com/cordova/cordova-discuss ?
On 4/24/15, 4:02 PM, "Mark Koudritsky" <kam...@google.com> wrote: >I'm back from ApacheCon and vacation. Very glad to see some enthusiasm >about this! >My thoughts about the next steps turned out to be rather lengthy so here >is >a doc: >https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jxQvygBtTeCYhxMtHLD9jgKTKZofMJdux1UIzs >dd5b0 > >The most important next steps are: > - Take one platform and try combine the logic from cordova/metadata and >plugman/platforms for it. This will help figure out some details. > - Improve plugin (un)install logic in PlatformProject so that the CLI can >be eventually implemented in terms of PlatformProject. > >Comments and discussion will be greatly appreciated! > > > >On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> Great enthusiasm! >> >> Mark is currently at ApacheCon and then taking a few vacation days, so >>I'm >> not sure if he will answer this quickly. Figured I'd chime in for now. >> >> I think that exactly as you say, the PlatformProject work was started by >> Mark as a way to separate the divide between platforms and lib. This >> experiment I think came out of discussions on how best to move out the >> platform parsers (search ML for "Move platform parsers from CLI to >> platforms" started by Steven Gill). >> >> I also emphasize earlier points that these are experiments and are >>totally >> open for re-design. I don't have concrete steps to propose for going >> forward, but sounds like you already have some good ideas. >> >> Another topic that came out of discussion at Hangout was to create a >> cleaner cordova-lib-core, still leaving it within the cordova-lib repo. >> High-level strawman suggests this core would not do various input >>parsing >> or make any assumptions about project directory structure, but would >>have a >> very strict and simple interface, which various higher levels use to do >> with it what they will. >> >> -Michal >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Rob Paveza <rob.pav...@microsoft.com> >> wrote: >> >> > This is a cool project. I'm curious, how much work do you think it'd >>be >> > to refactor the cordova CLI to interact with the projects via the >> > PlatformProject interface? We've been talking about how we could pull >> some >> > of the cordova-lib platform-specific dependencies out and put them >>into >> the >> > platforms (one example that comes to mind is having platform-specific >> > parameters on plugin), so that platform-specific code lives in the >> platform >> > implementation rather than cordova-lib. Having each platform derive >>from >> > PlatformProject seems like an excellent first step, since (at least >> between >> > -lib and -windows) once -lib hands off the project to the platform >>code, >> > it's just go time. >> > >> > What do you think the next steps are in terms of your API shape and >> > plans? Where do you see needing help most, where can I pitch in to >>get >> > your project going more? >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Mark Koudritsky [mailto:kam...@google.com] >> > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 12:50 PM >> > To: dev@cordova.apache.org >> > Subject: Experimenting with API for cordova tooling >> > >> > From today's hangout discussion, here are the links to our experiments >> > with using cordova tooling via API rather than CLI. >> > >> > It is loosely based on my older experiments here >> > https://github.com/kamrik/CordovaGulpTemplate >> > >> > But his time there is a separate wrapper that exposes a more object >> > oriented API and reaches deeper into cordova-lib. It introduces a >>central >> > object called PlatformProject that represents a single platform. The >> > wrapper is here: >> > https://github.com/kamrik/CordovaPlatformProject >> > Please consider it experimental and feel free to fork and play with >>it. >> > >> > A demo app that uses this wrapper >> > https://github.com/kamrik/cordova-api-example >> > >> > The ServiceWorker-to-Cordova script that uses the same wrapper >> > https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/sw2cdv >> > >> > I'll also be giving a presentation about this at ApacheCon next week, >> > draft slides are here http://kamrik.org/PlatformProjectSlides >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
