Really like this. It a) slims down the cli tools by lazy loading the libraries as they are needed and b) solves the upgrade/downgrade story, since eventually you'll be able to simply change the version of the cordova npm dependency at a project-level.
The only "downside" (not really) is that every generated cordova-cli project now is implicitly an npm project as it needs a package.json at the top-level. On 3/25/13 11:06 AM, "Michael Brooks" <mich...@michaelbrooks.ca> wrote: >+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. >> >>
