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Subject: Re: iOS: Why does the cordova.js filename change?
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It actually does bother me a little bit too, to have the file name have a
version in it when we're developing.

I don't really care where we put the file so long as there is only one copy
of it and not multiple.


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Shazron <shazron@gmail.com> wrote:

> On iOS, the cordova.js used to (inertia really because of the legacy
> location) be in the CordovaLib folder, and also the template. Since it
> was redundant, we only put it in the default template in
> bin/templates/project now.
>
> Even this is not ideal with respect to people upgrading and using it
> as an embedded WebView -- to grab the new .js they have to create a
> new project (or spelunk into the bin/templates folder). Ideally it
> should be put back also into CordovaLib because the .js is tightly
> coupled to a specific CordovaLib library and version, and for easy
> discovery. Don't know what the ideal situation can be here.
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Kevin Hawkins <khawkins@salesforce.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Apologies if/that I've missed this discussion previously.  I'm not clear
> on why the cordova.js file name changes in the iOS repo, particularly given
> the fact that great lengths seem to have been taken everywhere to be
> agnostic about what the originating name is, opting to dynamically update
> the destination name in build scripts, template generation, etc.?
> >
> > Changing the originating file name with each new iteration/revision of
> Cordova makes it hard to follow its history on GitHub (though it's easy
> enough locally with git log and --follow), and just generally seems
> unnecessary.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
> >
>

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