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On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Andrew Lunny <alu...@gmail.com> wrote: > October 2012 17:00, Mike Reinstein <reinstein.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Andrew, >> >> I agree on all points. Some additional feedback on a few specifics: >> >> > It looks like Mike has made a start on that with his >> > cordova-pluginrepo repository >> >> Correct! Thanks for taking the time to look at it. I'm hoping to have a >> working prototype by end of week. >> >> > The only way to find those problems is to try writing those plugins. >> >> Agreed, though I think inspecting existing plugins is a good start too. >> Have you had a chance to look at my google docs spreadsheet on plugin work? >> tab 1 is a grid of all plugins and their supported platforms, plus a few >> bits of meta data. Tab 3 was my attempt to go through some of the more >> "popular" plugins, analyizing their suitability for packaging via >> pluginstall. Where it fell short I documented. Green means good to go >> as-is, red means some issues, yellow means unsure (might be ok.) I'd love >> some more feedback on this. the doc is globally shared so everyone can >> modify it. I think we could use tab 3 to coordinate our work and provide >> visibility. thoughts? >> > > I didn't see the doc - can you post the link again? > > >> >> -Mike >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Andrew Lunny <alu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've missed most of this discussion, but I wanted to make a few quick >>> points: >>> >>> * `pluginstall` (the tool I developed, that is used by PhoneGap Build) is >>> a >>> tool for installing plugins. Per the Unix philosophy, it doesn't and won't >>> do anything other than that. >>> >>> * There may well be a need and a demand for a tool that grabs plugins from >>> git repositories, uninstalls plugins, generates starter plugins, etc. But >>> that's not pluginstall, and I think that tool should probably be named >>> something else. It looks like Mike has made a start on that with his >>> cordova-pluginrepo repository, which is awesome. >>> >>> * The problems that need to be solved by pluginstall are of the form "I >>> can't install plugin x with pluginstall", or "I can't write a plugin that >>> does x that can be installed by pluginstall." The only way to find those >>> problems is to try writing those plugins. The PGB team is moving forward >>> on >>> a few, and we've worked with some other companies who have helped us see >>> where pluginstall was lacking (adding multiple children to an Android >>> intent-filter, installing a dylib into an iOS project). >>> >>> * node-xcode is a separate project, and will be useful for any plugin >>> tools >>> written with node. It would probably be better for everyone's sanity if >>> there was a single version of that parser. I've been pretty slack about >>> merging changes, so I'll get up to speed on that. >>> >>> * If other tools want to interoperate with pluginstall, they should follow >>> the plugin spec here: >>> https://github.com/alunny/cordova-plugin-spec >>> That's a working document and is open to changes. Again, my preference is >>> for changes of the form "I can't write a plugin that does X in this >>> format" >>> rather than "this element has a slightly misleading name; how about this >>> name?". The GitHub issues for that repo is the best place to discuss >>> changes to that spec. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Andrew >>> >>> On 6 October 2012 09:08, Mike Reinstein <reinstein.m...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > Andrew's is the one used by pg build. Anis has changes from all of us >>> and >>> > has the most the up to date code: >>> > >>> > https://github.com/imhotep/pluginstall >>> > >>> > -Mike >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Patrick Mueller <pmue...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: >>> > > >>> > > > Think its time we nominated a canonical repo for this. Fil's? >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > > URL please? Are we talking about forks of pluginstall? >>> > > >>> > > -- >>> > > Patrick Mueller >>> > > http://muellerware.org >>> > > >>> > >>> >> >>
