I would caution against developing a plugin inside a cordova-cli workspace. The nature of the install vs. prepare divide is that any changes to native code require reinstalling. That's confusing for developers, so I would recommend that the best way to develop a plugin using CLI is to plugman create elsewhere, and then install that plugin into a CLI workspace for testing. Then when you make a change to the plugin at its top-level location, you uninstall and reinstall it.
I recognize that this flow is less than ideal, and I'd like to improve it in the long term, but in the meantime it would be a bad idea to keep a plugin's canonical location inside plugins/. Braden On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Lucas Holmquist <lholm...@redhat.com>wrote: > i always forget about plugman > On Sep 20, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: > > > plugman create could be used outside of a project, and cordova plugin > > create should be used only inside of a project? > > > > All other cordova commands must be used inside a project (except the > > "create" entry point), and if we decide to ship the plugin templates with > > platforms, and/or decide to make the global cordova command just a > > grunt-cli like thing, etc etc, then I would worry about adding uses for > > cordova command in some global context. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Lucas Holmquist <lholm...@redhat.com > >wrote: > > > >> So currently when doing > >> > >> $ cordova plugin …. > >> > >> it fails if you are not in a cordova project. > >> > >> but > >> > >> $ cordova plugin create > >> > >> might not be used inside a project( i think it shouldn't be used inside > a > >> project at all, but i can be convinced otherwise ) > >> > >> > >> On Sep 4, 2013, at 10:46 PM, lmnbeyond <lmnbey...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>>> I also think it should sub-shell to a platform script. We already have > >>>> a `project template` folder in each platform. We can easily add a > >>>> `plugin template` as well and write a quick create_plugin script. > >>>> > >>>> What do you guys think of the workflow I described above ? Any > >>>> comments ? I can create jira issues for it and tackle it. > >>>> > >>>> -a > >>>> > >>> > >>> Hi Anis, > >>> > >>> I just want to confirm whether or not this is the workflow we are > >> talking about : > >>> > >>> For a brand new plugin: > >>> > >>> $ cordova plugin create /path/to/myPlugin > >>> $ cordova plugin add /path/to/myPlugin --watch > >>> > >>> > >>> For an existing plugin: > >>> > >>> $ cordova plugin add /path/to/corePlugin --watch > >>> > >>> > >>> Although, I'm not quite clear about the complexity behind this, I > think > >> the above workflow is great for me! > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >
