Great! Created an issue for it: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-3306
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Michael Brooks <mich...@michaelbrooks.ca>wrote: > Yea, I believe the plan is the lazy-load the platforms to a global > configuration directory. The lazy-load would only happen on the first > request for a given platform. Any future requests would use the cached > platform. > > For example: ~/.cordova/platform/cordova-android-2.7.0/ > > Andrew, I think your advantages are accurate. I would also add: > > 4. Removes need to `sudo chown username /path/to/global/npm/cordova/` > > I've got a lot on my plate right now, but I am hoping to get started on > this lazy-loading asap. > > Michael > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > >> > > > > >
