Well, I can see that this is kind of a philosophical disagreement.
Today having two <script> tags for cordova.js is defined to be an error. As
such the current behavior of cordova.js is correct. But you could just as well
have said that it's not an error. I think that's a better choice.
I've spent most of my career working on software development tools for various
languages. Generally we try to minimize uncheckable constraints or "gotchas"
when we can. This makes things a little harder for a few tools vendors and a
little easier for large numbers of developers. That's usually an easy decision
to make.
When you create a new Cordova project in the Intel XDK, we provide a template
that includes a script tag for cordova.js. This means the only way you can
lack the tag is if you delete it (or import a project that was missing the
tag). That's a great thing: it makes it much less likely that users will
forget to include cordova.js and wind up wasting hours looking for an
explanation.
However, the opposite mistake does still happen. People don't read the entire
template (why should they?) and think they have to add the tag themselves.
That's how new users sometimes get into this situation. We would like that not
to be an error; it just makes things a little smoother and more forgiving,
which is our goal.
I will certainly submit a pull request.
Julian
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Bowser [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 1:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Introduction for Julian Horn
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:40 AM Horn, Julian C <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> The fix certainly does not require a large chunk of time! Here's the
> entire fix; you put this up near the top of cordova.js, inside the
> outermost function invocation:
>
> if (window.cordova) {
> return;
> }
>
>
And nothing is stopping you from issuing a pull request. While Jesse and I
think that we shouldn't get into the practice of fixing people's JS errors, I'm
sure that someone in this project might agree with you. I just don't think
it's a bug, or even an improvement.
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