Oh, yes, it could also be made to install from the npm registry. It does neither of those things yet.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> wrote: > 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? >>
