+1 to locking the CLI to a version
+1 to the Grunt vision
However, I'd like to propose a different approach to the CLI versioning and
it can also solve the `create` command issue to help move towards a dumb
global `cordova`.
## Cordova-CLI
- npm version is still associated with a Cordova distribution
- Cordova-CLI does not vendor the Cordova distribution
- Adding a platform will lazy load the platform distribution into
~/.cordova/platform/<name>-<version>/
- We can lazy load by downloading a gzip from the Apache Git web server
- Next time the platform is needed, it is copied from
~/.cordova/platform/<name>-<version/
## Cordova Create
- Creating an app should be a lazy load of the Hello World app
- Cached in ~/.cordova/app/<name>-<version>/
- We can update the Hello World app to match a standard Cordova CLI project
- Now the global Cordova CLI is a dumb tool
- On create: lazy loading or copying the hello world app
- On project command: shelling to ./node_modules/bin/cordova <command>
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote:
> As Tommay pointed out, you need to create the cordova project structure in
> the first place with some manner of tool..
>
> On 3/22/13 11:58 AM, "tommy-carlos Williams" <to...@devgeeks.org> wrote:
>
> >I don't have much to add except that I really like this about Grunt.
> >
> >However, it would get "interesting" with Cordova since the global is what
> >creates a project in the first place. I still think it could work and
> >have the global only responsible for creating dirs and setting up
> >package.json stuff etc...
> >
> >+1 for looking into this.
> >
> >On 23/03/2013, at 4:53, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote:
> >
> >> Right now the global executable is version locked to a Cordova
> >> release. If you have a project running 2.5 you are required to have
> >> Cordova/CLI 2.5. If you need to then work in Cordova 2.4 you need to
> >> downgrade (not really but you would to be safe).
> >>
> >> In Grunt .4 the global executable is dumb. It just shells to locally
> >> installed ./node_module version of Grunt. This enables project level
> >> versioning of Grunt. Nice feature. We can do the same thing: with the
> >> caveat that you would then require a package.json and ./node_modules
> >> folder in our Cordova projects.
> >>
> >> Discuss.
>
>
