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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 08:27:52 -0700
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Subject: Re: npm based "cordova platform add"
From: Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io>
To: "dev@cordova.apache.org" <dev@cordova.apache.org>
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I'm still trying to understand why we're not using package.json for this. I
seriously do not see any benefit: pls convince me!


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:53 PM, purplecabbage <purplecabbage@gmail.com>
wrote:

> >> $ cordova --usenpm platform add
> >> ios@3.4.1
>
> Why would you do this?
> What version of cordova?
> Do you expect to add multiple ios@versions to a single cordova project?
> Ios@3.4.1 and android@3.5.2
>
> Our version / dependency tree is already insane. Has anyone here submitte=
d
> a cross device app to a store? Made anything more complicated than hello
> world? I feel like we're losing touch.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 2, 2014, at 7:49 PM, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Tried it out. Seemed to work fine:
> >
> > $ cordova --usenpm platform update ios
> > npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-ios/3.5.0
> > npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-ios/3.5.0
> > npm http GET
> https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-ios/-/cordova-ios-3.5.0.tgz
> > npm http 200
> https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-ios/-/cordova-ios-3.5.0.tgz
> > iOS project is now at version 3.5.0
> >
> > $ ls ~/.cordova/lib/npm_cache/cordova-ios/3.5.0/
> > .cache.json  package/     package.tgz
> >
> > $ cordova --usenpm platform update ios
> > npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-ios/3.5.0
> > npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-ios/3.5.0
> > iOS project is now at version 3.5.0
> >
> > $ cordova --usenpm platform update ios@3.4.1
> > Platform "ios@3.4.1" not recognized as a core cordova platform. See
> > `cordova platform list`.
> >
> > $ cordova --usenpm platform add ios@3.4.1
> > Platform "ios@3.4.1" not recognized as a core cordova platform. See
> > `cordova platform list`.
> >
> >
> > Thoughts for next steps:
> > - Allow platform@version in the command-line (as I tried to do)
> > - Delete "url" and "version" from platforms.js (WOOHOO!)
> > - Add "cordova cache ls" and "cordova cache clear" commands
> > - Advertise the new awsomeness!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io> wrote:
> >>
> >> but=E2=80=A6why not package.json ?
> > (leaving this discussion to the other thread)
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Mark Koudritsky <kamrik@google.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I've added the bits needed to download platform files from npm when
> doing
> >>> cordova platform add
> >>> Currently this is hidden behind a --usenpm flag
> >>> e.g: cordova --usenpm platform add ios
> >>> Some testing would highly appreciated before we switch to npm as the
> >>> default place to download the platform files from.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The links changes in cordova-lib
> >>> <
> >>
> https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/commit/55810360fe660276a1ab0d04382d=
a633f9cf1290
> >>> and
> >>> cordova-cli
> >>> <
> >>
> https://github.com/apache/cordova-cli/commit/57179d61d0c35e32c808198d184d=
0d515fbb0c28
> >>>
> >>> Some of the platforms on npm:
> >>> https://www.npmjs.org/package/cordova-android
> >>> https://www.npmjs.org/package/cordova-ios
> >>> https://www.npmjs.org/package/cordova-blackberry
> >>
>

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