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From: Michal Mocny <mmocny@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:08:31 -0500
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Subject: Re: Some thoughts/questions on the new --save feature
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We should save the phase 2 planning for a separate thread / next hangout.

Many strong opinions and bikeshedding to be had, lets finish phase 1 and
sit on the changes for a bit to get comfortable.

-Michal

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Steven Gill <stevengill97@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Raymond Camden <raymondcamden@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 1) I can see the logic there, but it seems like folks would want to
> > save so much, overwhelmingly so, that it makes sense to not follow the
> > expectation here? Also, would our "typical" user be more familiar with
> > Node and be confused by this?
>
>
> I think it is best to stick to established best practices. I was on team
> autosave in the beginning but switched over.
>
> All of us should take a bigger role in educating our "typical" user on how
> to use npm and node. We provide Cordova so developers can make apps easily,
> but need to do a better job of helping developers improve their skills.
> Once we switch to package.json and improve our JSAPI, Cordova projects will
> be node projects. Our users will have to learn some node. I think we should
> take the opportunity to educate our users about node/npm and not just
> Cordova!
>
> >
> >
> 2) I know about the link too, my issue is more about what I (I being
> > the person sharing code) would publish. Right now I share *just* the
> > www folder so folks can --copy-from or link, whatever. But with this
> > new feature, I'd have to publish the entire project.
> >
> > That's what I'm asking about - does that make sense?
> >
> > To be clear, I'm not saying we need a magical solution for this, as I
> > said, my use case is *not* the norm. I'm mainly just wondering if
> > there is perhaps some elegant solution to including a) a small amount
> > of files and b) easy setup for folks using my demos.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Steven Gill <stevengill97@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > 1) I would say it is not autosave by default so we follow node/npm
> style.
> > > You have to be explicit when saving dependencies to node projects.
> > Example
> > > "npm install browserify --save".
> > >
> > > 2) I believe their is a --link command to point to your www for your
> > > Cordova project to use. This isn't a perfect solution for your use case
> > but
> > > it better than manually copying. Others who are more familiar with this
> > can
> > > hopefully elaborate.
> > > On Mar 3, 2015 6:42 AM, "Victor Sosa" <sosah.victor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> +1 on Raymond's idea, I also why --save isn't default. When talking
> > about
> > >> SCMs, the best practice for Cordova applications is to share them with
> > no
> > >> platforms nor plugins, so each time a developer checks out the project
> > from
> > >> the repo, he/she will need to add the appropriate plugins and desired
> > >> platform. Why not making the developers life easier with this --save
> > flag?
> > >>
> > >> 2015-03-03 8:27 GMT-06:00 Raymond Camden <raymondcamden@gmail.com>:
> > >>
> > >> > 1) Is there any reason why --save isn't true by default? It would
> seem
> > >> > that in a majority of cases I'd want to save my plugins to the
> > >> > configuration file. I definitely see times when I would *not* want
> to
> > >> > do so, but it seems like that would be the minority of cases.
> > >> >
> > >> > 2) This is probably an edge case, but...
> > >> >
> > >> > One of the things I do when building Cordova examples is put up my
> www
> > >> > folder in a repo. My thinking is that my readers can grab the repo,
> > >> > and then make a new project and use --copy-from to grab the folder.
> > >> > This gives them my www crap and lets them go crazy.
> > >> >
> > >> > For plugins, I've been using a readme file to tell users what to do.
> > >> >
> > >> > I'd like to make use of this new feature to persist plugins and save
> > >> > users at least one step. (In theory they would just need to add the
> > >> > platform they want to test on.)
> > >> >
> > >> > But in order to do so, I can't just ship the www folder, I have to
> > >> > ship an entire Cordova project. That isn't a big deal per se, but it
> > >> > does mean they would need to copy a folder manually, possibly modify
> > >> > the app id, and then start working on the assets.
> > >> >
> > >> > Given that I think my use case is probably pretty minor, is there
> some
> > >> > thought as to how one could distribute sample code and make use of
> > >> > this feature?
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > --
> > >> >
> > >>
> >
> ===========================================================================
> > >> > Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM
> > >> >
> > >> > Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com
> > >> > Blog : www.raymondcamden.com
> > >> > Twitter: raymondcamden
> > >> >
> > >> >
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> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Victor Adrian Sosa Herrera
> > >> IBM Software Engineer
> > >> Guadalajara, Jalisco
> > >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> ===========================================================================
> > Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM
> >
> > Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com
> > Blog : www.raymondcamden.com
> > Twitter: raymondcamden
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