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Subject: Re: Merges as a feature
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:10:39 -0400
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If people wants achieve to do what merges do, I recommend hooks or custom bu=
ild process (i.e. npm scripts, gulp, grunt, ant, perl, ruby, etc) or running=
 custom build from hooks.=20

There is more flexibility and control thru hooks than merges.=20

- Carlos
Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 1, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Raymond Camden <raymondcamden@gmail.com> wrote=
:
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> K good enough for me. I don't agree with you. ;)
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>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Carlos Santana <csantana23@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>> In my personal opinion it's not a best practice anymore to use merges.
>>=20
>> The feature works today if you create a folder "merges"
>>=20
>> cordova create doesn't create it by default
>> It will not go away, visual studio leverages the "merges" folder in their=
 cordova templates.
>>=20
>> It will not be remove or deprecated, and at the same time will not be hig=
hlighted as a main Cordova "F"eature
>>=20
>>=20
>> - Carlos
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>=20
>>> On Sep 1, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Raymond Camden <raymondcamden@gmail.com> wro=
te:
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>>> That's not what I'm asking though. What I'm asking is - as a "Feature"
>>> (capital F ;) of Cordova, is it something that is going away?
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>>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Carlos Santana <csantana23@gmail.com> w=
rote:
>>>> For mfp cordova it's not needed, there are modern ways of achieving thi=
s.
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>>>> In cordova you can use hooks and merges
>>>> More advance users can use their build tooling like grunt, gulp, etc.
>>>>=20
>>>> - Carlos
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>>>> On Sep 1, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Raymond Camden <raymondcamden@gmail.com> w=
rote:
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>>>>> Just a quick question - is merges as a feature going away? I haven't
>>>>> seen anything about that here, but just checking.
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>>>>> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM
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>>>>> Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com
>>>>> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com
>>>>> Twitter: raymondcamden
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>>> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM
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>>> Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com
>>> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com
>>> Twitter: raymondcamden
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> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM
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> Email : raymondcamden@gmail.com
> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com
> Twitter: raymondcamden
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