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

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