I've seen this problem with cordova. My instructions for the examples have people copy the example folder out of the project before installing the plugin as a work around.
> On Oct 23, 2013, at 7:57 AM, Axel Nennker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > the above phonegap command fails (name to long) and I think it applies to > cordova as well. > > plugin add seems to copy the whole directory into the app's plugins > directory. Which is wrong. > > > I am developing a phonegap plugin and inside the plugin's developement > folder I have a subfolder named examples. In this folder I created a > phonegap example project to show how the plugin might be used. I want to > add the my plugin into this example app but "plugin add" dies because it > tries to copy the whole plugin's folder into itself. > > Why isn't "plugin add" just copying the plugin.xml and all the files > (assets, js-modules etc) into the plugins folder? This would prevent the > endless recursion and would just copy exactly those files that are needed. > > Am I missing something? > > cheers > Axel
