This is pretty close to Lunny's pluginstall spec: https://github.com/alunny/cordova-plugin-spec
For which the tools are being built. View the current phonegap/phonegap-plugins repo as a stepping stone. It bought us time to sorted out our own backyard before inviting everyone in to play. =) On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Michal Mocny <[email protected]> wrote: > Seems that our thirdparty plugins are platform-centric; with javascript not > written to be shared across platforms. > > Even if individual contributors are not willing to write implementations > for other platforms, or if a plugin only really applies to a single > platform, I think we should still provide good plugin structure conventions > that could scale to multiple platform implementations in the future. > > As far as I'm aware, this was the case with core plugins at some point, and > we made a big change to unify the js, right? > > Well, I think that plugin structure should be more like: > > plugin_name/ > - common/ [js code] > - platform/ > - ios/ [native code] > - android/ [native code] > - etc.. > > and less like we have now > > ios/plugin_name/ > - [js code] > - [native code] > > android/plugin_name/ > - [js code -- different api] > - [native code] > > I don't think we need to redo whats there now, but it would be nice to > decide on a structure, put up a skeleton for starting with, and mention it > in the Readme. > > (I ask before I'm going to be adding an android version of WebNotifications > some day, and I really don't want to fork the JS) > > -Michal
