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From: Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com>
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:02:07 -0700
Subject: Re: [cordova-cli] - what does the plugins folder do?
Thread-Topic: [cordova-cli] - what does the plugins folder do?
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Agree with everything Braden said

On 3/22/13 12:05 PM, "tommy-carlos Williams" <tommy@devgeeks.org> wrote:

>+1 for ./platforms becoming a build artifact.
>
>That is already how we are attempting to roll in our project using the
>cli, though its not quite right yet.
>
>On 23/03/2013, at 5:26, Braden Shepherdson <braden@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> We want this to stick around. One of my goals for the CLI is to make the
>> platforms/foo subdirectories completely build artifacts. Native code,
>>web
>> assets, JS code, all get copied on every prepare. That's not currently
>>true
>> for native code, but it is for the rest.
>>=20
>> Since we're doing that, we need the full content of the plugins to stick
>> around. Is there a problem with keeping this around?
>>=20
>> Braden
>>=20
>>=20
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io> wrote:
>>=20
>>> Cool. So, is this interim or necessary to exist for all of time?
>>> (Would assume you need some sort of staging area but not sure you need
>>> to keep em around if we can cache the manifest info or something.)
>>>=20
>>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Braden Shepherdson
>>> <braden@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>> I assume you mean the top-level plugins/ folder in the CLI?
>>>>=20
>>>> That is where plugins are cached when you cordova plugin add them.
>>> Whether
>>>> they're coming from local directories or git or wherever, they get
>>>>copied
>>>> here. Then on a prepare this is where the plugin's assets are copied
>>> from.
>>>>=20
>>>> Braden
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io> wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>>> ...
>>>=20