I'd like to see where the overlap is before jumping in and merging the two code bases.
I think that by essence plugins and apps are different. Even though they are close in that they both have manifest/assets/native files. I also like the existence of discrete tools that do one job rather than one big tool that does everything. Andrew Lunny separated the functionalities of pluginstall into multiple tools when he initially started it (node-xcode, node-plist, etc...). It's also so much easier for someone new to the project to just jump in and contribute. Besides some people are already using plugman separately and don't need the extra sugar provided by cordova-cli. I see cordova-cli as super-master-script that uses multiple tools to create/build/debug/emulate/install plugins that just focused on the project side of things... but maybe I got it wrong. This is just a brain dump and I can be convinced otherwise. Maybe we can schedule some sort of Google+ hangout to discuss this. Fil you've got a Google+ account now, yah :-) ? -a
