A federated system just means that anyone can host a directory of plugins, yes? Anis was saying that plugman could be easily made to point at any couchdb instance. Is that not federated?
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > No, at least I don't think so. The install/uninstall are more clobbers > and plugin.xml is not a thing npm has any desire to become aware of. > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> > wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > >> > Would this require that we use the node_modules dependency structure? > >> > >> No. We would teach npm install about our structure. > >> > >> > >> > Would we be able to enforce our <engine cordova-version=">3.0.0"> as > well > >> > as our <platform name="ios" min-sdk-version="6.0" > min-os-version="5.0"> > >> > constraints? > >> > >> Yes. > >> > >> > >> > Some things will be uglier to express as json I think. E.g.: trying to > >> > embed xml snippets (like for <config-file>), that contain many " > >> characters > >> > and newline characters. > >> > >> Yes. > >> > >> > >> > Making things harder to search for has been pointed out as a > >> disadvantage. > >> > What would be the advantages? > >> > >> We implement a theoretically federated system. Cordova would continue > >> to use its own registry. (And thusly downstream distributions could > >> use their own.) > >> > > > > I thought this was already true with Anis' current setup? >
