+1. This will also be a step towards releasing platforms independently. Will
the CLI have a semver like dependency on the platform specified somewhere ?
Would the cli have to require('npm') and do the install?
-----Original Message-----
From: brian.ler...@gmail.com [mailto:brian.ler...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Brian
LeRoux
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 2:20 PM
To: dev@cordova.apache.org
Subject: adding platforms to npm for dependency sanity
We've discussed this but I'm not sure the whole idea has crystalized. My
proposal (based on previous discussions) below. I'll use iOS as an example but
this applies to all platforms supported by the CLI.
First, we'd add two files:
cordova-ios
|-package.json
'-index.js
…I don't think I need to describe the utility of package.json but index.js
would expose programatic library apis:
module.exports = { create:Function, run:Function, build:Function,
clean:Function, log:Function}
We then publish to npm. That is it for now. Ideal future CLI uses platforms
just like other deps. We lose lazy loading but network and disk is cheap so it
wasn't really important anyhow.
Discuss!
