Thoughts supporting starter templates like plugins? e.g. Something like this:
cordova template add apache.hello.world (plugin.xml) cordova template add apache.hello.world.native.dude (plugin.xml) Internally it's a: cordova plugin add template.apache.hello.world Reserve template.* namespace? Bonus is there's an indication of which starter templates people are using. There's some minor implementation details like: cordova template add apache.hello.world cordova plugins ls [template.apache.hello.world] [org.apache.cordova.statusbar] [org.apache.cordova.console] What we'd probably want is: cordova plugins ls [org.apache.cordova.statusbar] [org.apache.cordova.console] Templates can only install, can't update. Users publishing a template - yes / no? > -----Original Message----- > From: brian.ler...@gmail.com [mailto:brian.ler...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Brian LeRoux > Sent: March 11, 2014 1:05 PM > To: dev@cordova.apache.org > Subject: Re: [cordova-plugins/statusbar] Publishing as core > > I like this idea. Achieves all concerns. (Separation thereof, and onboarding > ease.) > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Carlos Santana > <csantan...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > +1 Keep it as a plugin not embed into platform repo > > > > default plugins ? > > > > what about binding a set of default plugins with our www template app > > (the template app specified what plugins are required) > > > > meaning associate a set of plugins with a template www app, and not > > associate with platform or cli > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org > > >wrote: > > > > > Plugins allow us to share JS. Rolling statusbar into platforms means > > > different JS for all platforms, and make it easier for the APIs to > > diverge. > > > > > > Plugins allow us to share docs, and to have the docs live with the code. > > > APIs like Android's "app" plugin don't have very good docs (or maybe > > > they are just undiscoverable, or maybe I've just missed where they > > > are). But having consistency with docs is a big win I think, so > > > having statusbar > > as a > > > plugin means devs can go to its plugin page to find its docs. > > > > > > I think just having default plugins would achieve the "everyone will > > > probably want it" concern. But having it show up in "cordova plugin ls" > > > will help devs discover that it's there and that they should > > > probably use it. > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Jonathan Bond-Caron < > > > jbo...@gdesolutions.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon Mar 10 04:07 PM, Jesse wrote: > > > > > More on the concept of rolling into a platform ... > > > > > My distinction is that there are some things that every platform > > should > > > > consider a > > > > > baseline of browser functionality, and if the OS SDKs do not > > > > > provide > > it > > > > out of the > > > > > box, then we should. Some examples of this : > > > > > > > > > > 1. Local XHR, Windows Phone does not support xhr when trying to > > access > > > a > > > > file:// > > > > > url, I could have made this a plugin that would only be used on > > > > > WP, > > but > > > > I think > > > > > this functionality should be intrinsic, so now it is. > > > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > > > 2. console.log: if you create a brand new iOS cordova project, > > > > > the > > > > hello-world app > > > > > gives you some boilerplate code to get started. One thing that > > > > > new > > > > users may > > > > > notice is the use of console.log in index.js, however, they will > > never > > > > see the > > > > > output. Hooking conosle.log output to go to the command-line > > > > > output > > of > > > > a run > > > > > command, or the output window of visual studio, or xcode is the > > minimum > > > > > functionality, and I personally think it should be built in. > > > > > This is > > > > probably best > > > > > discussed in a new thread, as I know Michal has a different > > > > > opinion, > > > > because of > > > > > some weinre edge case, but this is meant to serve more as an example. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yep agree, distinction here is there's ~ "web dev" flow and > > > > "native > > dev" > > > > flow (using an IDE) > > > > > > > > Both of those should be core somehow > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Carlos Santana > > <csantan...@gmail.com> > >
