Yeah, Michael Brooks was working towards lazy-loading the libraries as you need them.
On 4/30/13 5:08 AM, "Andrew Grieve" <agri...@chromium.org> wrote: >Actually... Now I think I'm remembering that there was talk about not >including these at all... Was that right? We were going to package them up >as separate npm targets, or have CLI be able to download them on demand as >zip files? > > >On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Andrew Grieve ><agri...@chromium.org>wrote: > >> Right now we have a copy / paste of the entire cordova-ios, >> cordova-android, cordova-blackberry directories within cordova-cli/lib. >>I'm >> wondering if we should change these to be submodules. >> >> Git submodules often don't work well because they don't automatically >> track branches. In this case though, I think they do exactly what we'd >>want >> them to - to point to a specific commit hash. >> >> Advantages: >> 1. cordova-cli currently takes a while to clone since its index is so >>big. >> Using submodules would mean the index would stop growing so much (not >>sure >> if we can purge the currently copies from index). >> 2. It would be clear that the copies within CLI do not have any >> modifications >> 3. Would be easier to update them for each release >>
