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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:59:29 -0400
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Subject: Re: config.xml discussion, we need to talk
From: Carlos Santana <csantana23@gmail.com>
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I was not trying to be purist with the w3c www/config.xml

I just want to see some consistency across all platforms for configuration
settings for a Cordova App.

The same way I have a single index.html, app.css and app.js. I want see one
config.xml for all platforms inside www/ or many config.xml per platform
config.ios.xml, config.android.xml, etc... But as a web developer I'm
excepting all the files that I need to modify inside www/ using CLI or not

Even if I have to run something like ./bin/processconfig.sh to propagate
changes from the /www/config.xml

As web developer I might update the config.xml once for every 100 edits to
my app web files (HTML, JS, CSS)

TLDR: consistency wins over correctness

PS: what is the phonegap team doing? I think you tell users to edit one
config.xml for the web app and pgbuild takes care of the rest


-- Carlos

On Wednesday, September 25, 2013, Braden Shepherdson wrote:

> I'm in favour of CLI (platform parsers, probably) deleting this
> www/config.xml that they don't use. It's a waste of space and has confused
> people in the past.
>
> It even confused the iOS prepare code and caused that odd "my project
> doesn't work if it starts with x, y or z" bug (because xFactor/config.xml
> sorts after www/config.xml, and it was blindly taking the first one).
>
> Braden
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Bryan Higgins <bhiggins@blackberry.com<javascript:;>
> >wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the clarification. BlackBerry happened to luck out because we
> > expect config.xml in www.
> >
> > Perhaps copying of config.xml should become a responsibility of the
> > platform parsers.
> >
> > I can understand moving config.xml to root or cordova for the reason
> stated
> > in the JIRA, but my vote would be to keep it "config.xml" rather than
> > "app.xml".
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Jesse <purplecabbage@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I am not saying deviate, I am saying, what is it supposed to be? If you
> > > look at the various platforms you will see it is all over the map.
> > >
> > > Looking at Android code, and talking to Joe, the only location that the
> > > config.xml file is loaded from is in res/xml, and the fact that
> > cordova-cli
> > > creates another one sitting in the www folder is just irrelevant
> > > sloppiness.
> > >
> > > It may make sense for the config.xml file to sit in the root/www folder
> > of
> > > the CLI project, but in reality at runtime, it's location will vary by
> > > platform.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > @purplecabbage
> > > risingj.com
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Bryan Higgins <
> bhiggins@blackberry.com
> > > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > www/config.xml aligns nicely with the w3c widget spec [1]. Why would
> we
> > > > want to deviate?
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/#reserved-file-and-folder-names
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Jesse <purplecabbage@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Seems any project created with the CLI has a config.xml in the www
> > > > folder.
> > > > > [1]
> > > > > Why do we have 2 of these?
> > > > >
> > > > > I also recently closed a defect created by Carlos, stating that WP8
> > did
> > > > NOT
> > > > > have it's config.xml in the www folder. [2] Now I am not sure I
> > should
> > > > have
> > > > > called this invalid, however, after creating a new WP8 project with
> > the
> > > > > CLI, I see a config.xml in the www folder AND one in the app root.
> > wtf?
> > > > >
> > > > > There is an open issue [3] to re-org config files, where Braden
> > states
> > > > "We
> > > > > already have plans to move $PROJECT/www/config.xml to
> > $PROJECT/app.xml,
> > > > > which more or less addresses ..."    Have we formalized what
> exactly
> > > this
> > > > > is?
> > > > >
> > > > > Seems we still have a lot of discussion that has to happen before
> we
> > > can
> > > > > move ahead on these items.  I am currently adding config.xml
> support
> > to
> > > > > Windows 8, and was hoping to have a nice clear path of what to do,
> > but
> > > it
> > > > > still looks pretty muddy. [4]
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4476
> > > > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-46<
> > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4658>
> > > > > 58 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4658>
> > > > > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4910
> > > > > [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4608
> > > > >
> > > > > @purplecabbage
> > > > > <http://risingj.com>


-- 
Carlos Santana
<csantana23@gmail.com>

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