Kewl. I'm down and happen to really like Q. Not sure everyone will agree.
Maybe next time a heads up to the list so we can discuss arch changes like
this.
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Braden Shepherdson <bra...@chromium.org>wrote:
> Whoops, I forgot to mention, I created and pushed a cordova-3.1.x branch of
> both tools before merging this; fixes for the 3.1.0 release should be in
> there. I don't intend to launch the refactored code to NPM until we've had
> at least a week of trying it out.
>
> Braden
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Braden Shepherdson <bra...@chromium.org
> >wrote:
>
> > tl;dr: Plugman and CLI now uses Q.js[1] Promises internally instead of
> > callbacks. This has significantly clarified and shortened the code. The
> > public API (plugman.fetch, cordova.platform, etc.) HAVE NOT changed!
> >
> > If you use CLI on the command line, nothing has changed.
> >
> > If you downstream CLI and/or Plugman, but use cordova.foo and
> plugman.foo,
> > nothing has changed (except possibly that a few calls are a bit more
> async
> > than before, so code that cheats and pretends they're sync might fail
> now).
> >
> > If you downstream either one, but require internal modules like fetch.js
> > or platform.js directly, you should stop doing that and use plugman.fetch
> > etc. instead. If you want to continue calling them directly, you'll need
> to
> > port to use promises.
> >
> > If you've been working on Plugman or CLI and I just broke everything,
> feel
> > free to yell at me on IRC (#cordova, shepheb) or Gtalk (braden at google
> > dot com) or email. It's not hard to port things to handle promises (see
> > below), and their basic use is not hard to understand (see the
> tutorial[1]).
> >
> > If you really do need to port something, and you used to do a function
> > call like this:
> >
> > whateverFunc(args..., function(err){
> > if (err) {
> > foo
> > } else {
> > bar
> > }
> > });
> >
> > the correct call is now:
> >
> > whateverFunc(args...).done(function() {
> > bar
> > }, function(err) {
> > foo
> > });
> >
> >
> > [1] Q.js tutorial at https://github.com/kriskowal/q
> >
> >
>
