I'm in the 'reuse npm as a dependency' camp. We can override stuff that way and not get stuck re-implementing the entire thing.
Just look at the size of Max's proposal as a result.Less code to write, means less to test, and ultimately less to maintain. That said, I encourage we code for all the things and see what suites us best. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Mike Reinstein <reinstein.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Max! > > We've been chatting about package manager stuff a bit prior to your arrival > a few days ago. The 2 main proposals we've seen are to use npm for > everything, or try to set up an independant system, which is similar but > different (hopefully suited to cordova's particulars.) I've been exploring > option 2, and had a brief discussion with Isaac Schlueter and Dominic about > this. I think it's an interesting read. > https://github.com/dominictarr/rc/issues/5 > > Here is the spec (and partial implementation) of what I've got so far: > https://github.com/mreinstein/cpm > > I would really appreciate some feedback on this. If it turns out that the > cordova community is really against doing it this way then I'd rather know > sooner than later, so I'm not burning time on a project that no one wants. > I'm hoping for more feedback from Isaac as well, especially on the bullets > in that rc discussion because I think I outlined all the major hurdles that > using npm straight up might introduce. In my opinion, using npm directly > would be a mistake, but I'm still in the experimentation phase at this > point. > > -Mike > > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Max Ogden <m...@maxogden.com> wrote: > >> meet lunny >> >> https://github.com/maxogden/lunny >> >> lunny is about 60 lines of code: >> https://github.com/maxogden/lunny/blob/master/lib/lunny.js >> >> the basic idea is: >> >> 1. use npm for pretty much everything >> 2. if a package has some special metadata in its package.json then lunny >> will run plugin-install with the proper arguments >> 3. there is no step 3! >> >> right now the hardest part about publishing and distributing a cordova >> package is authoring the plugin.xml file so I have only tested this with >> the childbrowser plugin from http://github.com/alunny/childbrowser >> >> thoughts welcome! >>
