Sounds good, Jesse feel free to assign some of those issues to me, will happy 
to help with them.

-----Original Message-----
From: purplecabbage [mailto:purplecabb...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 6:47 PM
To: dev@cordova.apache.org
Subject: Re: switch to nodejs scripts for windows platforms

Yes, this is on the roadmap, at an extremely low priority. 
There are plenty of issues in jira I would like tackled before this. 

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> On Jul 2, 2014, at 4:05 AM, "Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon)" 
> <v-seg...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> Currently on WP8 and Windows8 platform specific scripts 
> (platform/cordova/lib) are written on cscript and powershell. On other 
> platforms, Android/Blackberry as an example, we use nodejs. Are there any 
> specific reason we don't use nodejs?
> 
> I see the following advantages of switching to nodejs:
> 
> 1.       More familiar api, ability to share code across platforms
> 
> 2.       Promises +module loader
> 
> 3.       Consistence across platforms
> 
> 4.       Some platform specific functionality could be moved from LIB to 
> platforms (like LIB/src/cordova/metadata/blahblah_parser.js 
> update_from_config )
> 
> Disadvantages:
> 
> 1.       nodejs requirement (currently you can build/run from platform folder 
> using corresponding bat files w/o nodejs installed)
> 
> 2.       Requires implementation and regression testing
> 
> Thx!
> Sergey

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