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From: Michal Mocny <mmocny@chromium.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 11:16:28 -0400
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Subject: Re: project version info
To: Ian Clelland <iclelland@chromium.org>
Cc: Michal Mocny <mmocny@chromium.org>, Ray Camden <raycamde@adobe.com>,
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Having our cli and platform versions so similar is going to confuse people.

Lets skip version 4 and bump cli straight to version 10.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Ian Clelland <iclelland@chromium.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Michal Mocny <mmocny@chromium.org> wrote=
:
>
>> The reason CLI is reporting that number is because we tried to go semver
>> in
>> an odd way (CAD-SEM) and CLI version was supposed to be just the SEM par=
t
>> and the CAD was just informational -- which hasn't worked out so well.
>> The
>> next CLI release is going to drop the old SEM and turn the existing CAD
>> into the new SEM.  i.e.: npm install -g cordova@rc you'll notice that it=
s
>> just 3.7.0.
>>
>
> There's also the issue that the CLI version doesn't necessarily correspon=
d
> exactly to the platform versions. CLI 3.6.0-0.2.9 by default installs
> Android 3.6.0, for instance, but FFOS 3.6.1. And with independent platfor=
m
> releases, it's about to get a lot weirder.
>
> I don't know if a better question is which CLI version you used to create
> a project, or which platform versions are actually installed (which you c=
an
> get from `cordova platfom ls`)
>
> Ian
>
>>
>>
>> w.r.t. reporting installed version and not workspace created version: th=
e
>> version of the CLI that was used to create a project should not be what =
is
>> important.  Its the current versions of the platforms and plugins within
>> your workspace that are actually important.
>>
>> This is because when you upgrade your CLI, we will not use the version
>> that
>> was used to create the project any more.  There have been proposals for
>> this, but its not implemented, we just assume you always want the latest
>> CLI to manage your workspace.
>>
>> This could become an issue if the CLI breaks compatibility with director=
y
>> structure / old platform/plugin structure, but that hasn't come up yet.
>> If
>> that *does* happen, we can introduce a "created-with" at that point, and
>> use the lack of "created-with" as a signal for old version.
>>
>> For what its worth, for cca we drop a "created-with-cca-version" file
>> inside your platforms/ folder, since we currently also pin platforms.
>> When
>> you upgrade your cca tool, we then know to prompt for a platforms upgrad=
e.
>> I don't know if this will still be necessary with independent platform
>> releases.
>>
>> -Michal
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Ray Camden <raycamde@adobe.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I=C2=B9m posting this here as opposed to the Google Group as it seems =
like
>> the
>> > type of thing that may have been discussed, then turned down, and I
>> > figured this list was best to answer why.
>> >
>> > Unless I=C2=B9m not seeing it, there is no way to tell what version of=
 the
>> CLI
>> > was used to build a project. Oddly =C2=B3cordova info=C2=B2 will retur=
n Cordova
>> > version, but for me, the # makes no sense. Here is one I got with a
>> recent
>> > project: 0.21.13.
>> >
>> > Is there a reason why 3.6.3 isn=C2=B9t returned and not saved in confi=
g.xml?
>> >
>> > I=C2=B9m assuming it is because plugin version info is more important,=
 but I
>> > can definitely seeing wanting to know what CLI version was used.
>> >
>> >
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