Re: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks

2015-05-07 Thread Andrew Grieve
- From: Josh Soref [mailto:jso...@blackberry.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 11:05 AM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: RE: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks It should be possible for our build system to convert some metadata into symlinks which are fed to whatever build thing actually

RE: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks

2015-05-07 Thread Chuck Lantz
to validate. -Chuck -Original Message- From: agri...@google.com [mailto:agri...@google.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Grieve Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 6:55 AM To: dev Subject: Re: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks Could we fix our un-tarring logic to create symlinks on windows? On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2

RE: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks

2015-05-07 Thread Chuck Lantz
- Anyone know if there are potential unintended side-effects of doing that? -Chuck -Original Message- From: Chuck Lantz [mailto:cla...@microsoft.com] Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 8:05 AM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: RE: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks Possibly using junctions

Cordova Plugins with Symlinks

2015-05-06 Thread Chuck Lantz
Hey folks, So I’ve started to see some issues come up with certain Cordova plugins when devs are mixing a Windows and OSX environment together when developing an app. Digging into it a bit, it looks like root cause is that there are some situations where iOS plugin implementations with custom

Re: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks

2015-05-06 Thread Jesse
I think in this case we should be not be using symlinks. All of our output project types support adding a reference to a file or folder, we should leverage this directly. Of course, this could possibly lead to forward vs back slash issues, but should be easier than running hook hacks. At

RE: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks

2015-05-06 Thread Chuck Lantz
the problem does it not? -Chuck -Original Message- From: Jesse [mailto:purplecabb...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 9:16 AM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks I think in this case we should be not be using symlinks. All of our output project types

RE: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks

2015-05-06 Thread Josh Soref
into another directory, other platforms should be able to do similar. -Original Message- From: Shazron [mailto:shaz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 1:23 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks Ordinarily I agree with Jesse's sentiment about

RE: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks

2015-05-06 Thread Chuck Lantz
into another directory, other platforms should be able to do similar. -Original Message- From: Shazron [mailto:shaz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 1:23 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks Ordinarily I agree with Jesse's sentiment

Re: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks

2015-05-06 Thread Shazron
: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 9:16 AM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Cordova Plugins with Symlinks I think in this case we should be not be using symlinks. All of our output project types support adding a reference to a file or folder, we should leverage this directly. Of course