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From: Michal Mocny <mmocny@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 12:01:51 -0400
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Subject: Re: Behavior of --copy-from
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The *intention* of copy-from / link-to is to import either (a) a web
project, or (b) another cordova project.

We used to check for (b) I think by the existence of a config.xml and
www/ (note: double check config.xml is required).  If that check passes, we
copy those two nested contents only (I think) directly into the root of
your new project.

If the check failed, we would copy the entire folder into the www/ of the
new project.

There's some bug since you should get a valid cordova project no matter
what the contents of the import (with caveats of importing invalid
config.xml or bad apps).

-Michal

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Raymond Camden <raymondcamden@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I definitely can't recreate the "end up with a folder that isn't a
> project" but --copy-from does seem to ignore files it doesn't
> recognize. I filed a bug for it.
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Raymond Camden <raymondcamden@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > No, what seems to happen to me is:
> >
> > If I copy-from a directory that has a www folder in it, then it is
> > treated as the *root* of the new project and a proper Cordova folder
> > is not created.
> >
> > If I copy-from a dir that does NOT have a www folder in it, it is
> > treated as the www folder of a new project.
> >
> > Nope, I lie. Ok, so this is weirder than I imagined.
> >
> > I made a new folder called "testwithwww". It has a file called
> > something.txt and a folder called www with an index.html.
> >
> > I sourced a new project with it. My www folder copied fine, but
> > something.txt was completely ignored. It did, however, make a proper
> > Cordova project.
> >
> > So this is a bit different from what I saw earlier where my first test
> > created something that wasn't a project, but it definitely failed to
> > copy a file over.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Dmitry Blotsky <dblotsky@microsoft.com=
>
> wrote:
> >> Hi Raymond,
> >>
> >> The semantics of =E2=80=9C--copy-from=E2=80=9D are: copy the passed pa=
th in place of
> the new project's =E2=80=9Cwww=E2=80=9D directory, which =E2=80=9Ccordova=
 create=E2=80=9D seems to obey. Is
> that not what happened in your case? However, the failure to copy over
> paths that start with =E2=80=9C.=E2=80=9D looks like a bug to me. Unless =
someone says
> otherwise, feel totally free file a bug in JIRA.
> >>
> >> Kindly,
> >> Dmitry
> >>
> >> On May 17, 2015, at 7:56 AM, Raymond Camden <raymondcamden@gmail.com
> <mailto:raymondcamden@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Well shoot - as a follow up - if I make a new Cordova project, lets
> >> call it testsource2, and then copy .settings to it, and then follow up
> >> by making a new project that uses copy-from pointing to testsource2,
> >> the CLI isn't copying the .settings directory. That is a bug for sure,
> >> right?
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Raymond Camden <
> raymondcamden@gmail.com<mailto:raymondcamden@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> I thought I remember seeing a thread on this, but GMail is being a bit
> >> cranky about how I search today.
> >>
> >> I had thought that if you used --copy-from and the directory you used
> >> included www itself, then the folders would be copied over to a new
> >> project and merged in with normal default items.
> >>
> >> I just tested with a folder that had 2 items: A .settings directory
> >> and a www directory. While the CLI reported no issues, it did not
> >> create a proper Cordova project. It literally just copied .settings
> >> and www, but didn't do anything else to create a proper Cordova
> >> project.
> >>
> >> So I'm guessing that the expectation is that if you do not use a
> >> folder meant to be www, then your source directory should contain
> >> everything required for a proper Cordova project. But that's not
> >> forward-proof though. Imagine if Cordova 6 changes the project
> >> structure a bit so that a Foo folder is required, then I wouldn't be
> >> able to use my source dir w/o changing it. (Which, ok, probably won't
> >> happen.)
> >>
> >> So is this expected? Is this ok with others? Should I file a ER
> >> perhaps to make --copy-from in this situation add the rest of the
> >> project assets?
> >>
> >> --
> >>
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> >> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM
> >>
> >> Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com<mailto:raymondcamden@gmail.com>
> >> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com<http://www.raymondcamden.com>
> >> Twitter: raymondcamden
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM
> >>
> >> Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com<mailto:raymondcamden@gmail.com>
> >> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com<http://www.raymondcamden.com/>
> >> Twitter: raymondcamden
> >>
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> >
> > --
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> > Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM
> >
> > Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com
> > Blog : www.raymondcamden.com
> > Twitter: raymondcamden
>
>
>
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> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM
>
> Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com
> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com
> Twitter: raymondcamden
>
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