On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Michal Mocny <[email protected]> wrote:
> First, the easy one: Certainly you should have a way to drop files into > platforms/ios/HelloCordova, and I think <source-file> is probably the way > to go. The root seems to be the plugin folder by default, so you may need > to prefix with "../.." right now. Also seems hacky, not sure if there is a > better way. > <source-file> doesn't work for my use case, I'm already using for libraries, frameworks, and files that I want to be available inside the Mobile App. I want the file to be inside the XCode project, but NOT inside the Mobile App. It's a file that I need from xcode build script > For the other two: /merges and /hooks, I really don't think we should be > adding files into there. I consider those application assets, along with > www/ and application config.xml, which we also should not be directly > modifying from plugins. > > I think plugins should be allow to add files to any place in the cordova project/application. Or we can design a new type of "plugin" a plugin that deals with cordova project tooling. I like things simple, so if I can manage to create one plugin for my enterprise product, it will be easy for end user starting with cordova to add and remove one type of plugin, and then the plugin will take care of both what runs on the device and any tooling requirements for those features I'm building a plugin that will add to the existing cordova project excluding www/ (I don't want to touch this one). For www I think I will have "www" templates they can use when the do "cordova create" but this are just samples, if they already have an existing app I want an easy for them to get necessary files for my plugin to work, and some files are to be edited by them "merges", and other are hooks that need to run in prepare I want to add files to /merges/ /platforms and /hooks that are only applicable to my plugin and not overwriting any user files > For hooks -- there is a PR outstanding to just go ahead and add plugin > hooks. Perhaps you would like to help review and comment on that to get it > landed asap? > I will take a look, but I don't think it solves my use case, basically I'm asking for this function to be added to be done in a generic way in plugin.xml, versus having a mega_plugin_install hooks scripts that kind does the same thing is a custom brittle way vs relying on the the cordova community tooling > For merges -- I kinda think we should have plugins on par with apps, and > just have a merges/ folder for plugins. However, merges/ is probably just > generally a bad idea, and I suspect you can do a better job yourself by > writing hooks/ instead. > > Totally got blind here I don't know what you mean by "have plugins on par with apps" and "merges/ folder for plugins" I'm also looking on having a "/append/" and "/prepend/" in addition of what we have today "merges/" but probably that's a new mailing thread > -Michal > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Carlos Santana <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I already know about <asset> and <resource-file> [1] in plugin.xml > > > > I'm currently working with ios: > > <asset> copy files will be available inside mobile app www path > > <resource-file> files will be available to mobile app from root path > > > > I want to be able to provide files to other locations that do not go > inside > > mobile app: > > 1. I want to add files to <cordovaproject> > > <cordovaproject>/merges/ios/ > > <cordovaproject>/hooks/ > > Also here to add scripts/files that will be use by XCode build phases but > > do not go inside mobile App > > <cordovaproject>platform/ios/HelloCordova/ > > > > Right now I'm doing something like this, and it feels like a hack that > > might not work for all operating systems. > > > > <asset src="src/ios/www/default/worklight/checksum.js" > > target="../../../merges/ios/default/worklight/checksum.js" /> > > > > Maybe we need to add new feature for more elements like? > > <cordova-file src="" target=""> > > <native src="" target=""> > > > > > > > > [1]: > > > > > https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs/blob/master/docs/en/edge/plugin_ref/spec.md > > > > -- > > Carlos Santana > > <[email protected]> > > > -- Carlos Santana <[email protected]>
