Sounds reasonable to me. Conceptually, I'm not sure why the syntax for (2) shouldn't do what you request when the url for the original plugin was a local path? Maybe just a bug?
-Michal On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Jeffrey Heifetz <jheif...@blackberry.com>wrote: > We were working on a redistribution of Cordova that included some plugins > and ran into a use-case not covered by the current plugin spec.[1] > > Currently there are two ways to specify a dependency > 1. Using a combination of url, commit and subdir which plugman will use to > clone down a repo and install > 2. Set the url to ".", skip the commit and specify a subdir relative to > the root of the repo. Plugman then runs git-rev parse to find the root and > install from there. > > I would like to propose a third way which would be relative to the current > install and not use git at all > 3. Skip the url, skip the commit and specify a subdir relative to the > current plugin.xml. > > This would allow us to distribute a version of cordova with plugins to > anyone without an unnecessary requirement on git (considering the plugins > are fully installed) > > > > 1. http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/3.0.0/plugin_ref_spec.md.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential > information, privileged material (including material protected by the > solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public > information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended > recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, > please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from > your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this > transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. >
