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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:15:01 -0700
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Subject: Re: cordova plugin save
From: Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io>
To: "dev@cordova.apache.org" <dev@cordova.apache.org>
Cc: "Treggiari, Leo" <leo.treggiari@intel.com>
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ya this too=E2=80=A6again we should save moving plugins to npm for a later =
date=E2=80=A6the
problems there aren't ones we have and the reuse symmetry being craved here
is already in place given we re-used most of npm's arch and modules=E2=80=
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org> wrote=
:

> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io> wrote:
>
> > We don't have to make plugins a package.json thing=E2=80=A6we could do =
that
> latter.
> > If we do choose to use package.json highly likely we'll need to reserve=
 a
> > key for our 'namespace'. Perhaps "cordova". That key could have whateve=
r
> we
> > want in it (such as mapping our current config.xml properties/values).
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Mark Koudritsky <kamrik@google.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > In order to keep the plugins as project deps in package.json we need =
to
> > > sort out some details of treating plugins as npm packages first:
> > >
> > > 1) Plugins don't currently have package.json files, and list their de=
ps
> > in
> > > plugin.xml.
> > > 2) Are we ok with loosing the possibility of specifying platform
> specific
> > > dependencies? (e.g. plugin A might depend on plugin B for iOS and on
> > > nothing for Android)
> >
> Might need to do something custom for dependencies of plugins, since the
> nested-dependency concept that node uses doesn't work for plugins (can't
> have multiple versions of the same plugin).
>
>
> > > 3) Simply listing deps inside the newly created package.json in plugi=
ns
> > > will create a possibly deep tree of plugin/node_modules/plugin folder=
s
> > with
> > > possible duplicates. Npm's peer dependencies
> > > <http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/02/07/peer-dependencies/> might be the
> > right
> > > solution, but I haven't looked at it yet.
> > >
> > > =E2=80=8B
> > > I agree that Cordova is a build system to a very large extent. But th=
en
> > it
> > > makes more sense to treat it as a tool to be used by other build
> systems
> > > rather than re-invent all the wheels on our own.
> > >
> > > Recently I tried building a cordova project with Gulp without using t=
he
> > > CLI, it works great.
> > > https://github.com/kamrik/CordovaGulpTemplate
> > >
> > > Some time ago Carlos did a similar thing with Grunt:
> > > https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-cordovacli
> > >
> >
>

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