I should add that one benefit of what I outlined above is that you only need to worry about installing cordova-cli once, and it could then manage/download the various versions of itself.
The downside is that we would have to write those smarts, instead of just leveraging npm and forcing the user to take control. The grunt way is less magical, which has its benefits and drawbacks. -Michal On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: > Generally, I like it. We've discussed a somewhat variant in the past, and > I'm not sure which is better: > > Instead of installing locally every time a la grunt, we discussed having a > single install base for the different cordova versions (i.e. inside > ~/.cordova), and then cordova-cli is a short script that forks to launch > the right version of cordova proper. The right version is (a) the most > recent version if you are creating a new app, or (b) the version that is > "tied" to a given workspace when used inside an existing app (and which you > must explicitly upgrade). > > -Michal > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Carlos Santana <csantan...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> What does the community think of installing cordova only locally and not >> globally? >> >> # Installing Cordova locally will provide: >> >> - A way to use different versions of cordova on the same system/os. >> - A way to specify cordova as a dependency in package.json for an App >> project >> - A way to sandbox cordova and checking into source control for an App >> project >> >> # [GruntJS](http://gruntjs.com/getting-started) is a project that already >> takes this approach: >> >> 1. User installs `grunt-cli` globally instead of grunt >> npm -g install grunt-cli` >> >> 2. User installs `grunt` locally >> npm install grunt --save-dev >> >> 3. When user runs `grunt` it will run a short script >> `/usr/local/bin/grunt` >> (about 40 lines) >> It will resolve and use grunt from cwd (current working directory) >> locally >> >> # Proposal: >> >> 1. Have 2 npm packages >> - cordova-cli >> - cordova >> >> 2. create cordova-cli package and update docs >> cordova-cli will be almost indentical to grunt-cli >> https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-cli/blob/master/bin/grunt >> >> 3. codova package is not longer get's install as `bin\cordova` and instead >> run with >> require(cordovapath).cli(); >> >> >> --- >> If you want to know more about grunt and why grunt swtiched from being >> installed globally to now being install locally a podcast came out last >> Friday where the author of GruntJS (Ben Alman) explains more details >> http://javascriptjabber.com/074-jsj-grunt-js-with-ben-alman/ >> >> >> -- >> Carlos Santana >> <csantan...@gmail.com> >> > >
