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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:46:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: missing documentation and missing major version bump
From: Mark Koudritsky <kamrik@google.com>
To: dev@cordova.apache.org
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--extraplatformargs would also be ok, but it's not really different from
the -- separator as it works right now.
You can do
cordova run -- magicpostionarg --xcodeflag --bbflag=42
and it will pass along everything after the " -- " as is (in the original
order).


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Carlos Santana <csantana23@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Mark
> What about having a generic door? meaning something like -extraplatformargs
> cordova run --extraplatformargs="magicpostionarg --xcodeflag --bbflag=42"
>
> then pass down the value of extraplatformargs, then platform scripts should
> properly implement the parsing of arguments using "-" or "--" or for now if
> extraplatformargs contain position args they will get what they expect.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Mark Koudritsky <kamrik@google.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Carlos Santana <csantana23@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Yep Michal I agree to update cli to pass down extra parameters to
> > platform
> > > scripts like it used. this allow for greater flexibility in platform
> > > scripts and no hardcoded platform concerns in cli. No need to remove
> nopt
> > > if the this can be achieved.
> > >
> > >
> > The list of flags to pass down to run will have to be hard coded in the
> > cli, unless we want to go back to the manual position based argument
> > parsing.
> >
> > I don't think we want
> > cordova run --verbose
> > to mean something different than
> > cordova --verbose run
> > but I think it's ok to expect that
> > cordova run -- --verbose will mean something different.
> > And it also allows things like
> > cordova --verbose run -- --verbose
> >
> > The -- separation is exactly what allows the flexibility to pass anything
> > to the run and build scripts without telling the cli what to expect or
> not
> > expect after the -- .
> >
> > But going back to the origins of this discussion. The lack of
> documentation
> > in help.txt about the -- thing is my bad. Thanks to Josh for adding it
> > yesterday. But why revert the behavior? (and why only for the pre-4.0
> > versions) If webworks is not affected, who is? Are those real people? If
> > they have already hit, and possibly solved the problems caused by this
> > change, do they want to revert back? Would be glad to hear from them.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Carlos Santana
> <csantana23@gmail.com>
>

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