Ugh, unfortunately Braden is right. Still, I think that means we can move forward with the plan to make "plugman create" work anywhere and "cordova plugin create" only work inside of a workspace, but don't implement the latter until its actually feasible to make edits to plugins inside a workspace in some sane fashion.
Not supporting cordova plugin create from a global context leaves us open to doing the right thing in the future, I think. -Michal On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Braden Shepherdson <bra...@chromium.org>wrote: > 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! > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > > > >
