ya this too…again we should save moving plugins to npm for a later date…the problems there aren't ones we have and the reuse symmetry being craved here is already in place given we re-used most of npm's arch and modules…
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > We don't have to make plugins a package.json thing…we could do that > latter. > > If we do choose to use package.json highly likely we'll need to reserve a > > key for our 'namespace'. Perhaps "cordova". That key could have whatever > we > > want in it (such as mapping our current config.xml properties/values). > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Mark Koudritsky <kam...@google.com> > > wrote: > > > > > In order to keep the plugins as project deps in package.json we need to > > > sort out some details of treating plugins as npm packages first: > > > > > > 1) Plugins don't currently have package.json files, and list their deps > > in > > > plugin.xml. > > > 2) Are we ok with loosing the possibility of specifying platform > specific > > > dependencies? (e.g. plugin A might depend on plugin B for iOS and on > > > nothing for Android) > > > Might need to do something custom for dependencies of plugins, since the > nested-dependency concept that node uses doesn't work for plugins (can't > have multiple versions of the same plugin). > > > > > 3) Simply listing deps inside the newly created package.json in plugins > > > will create a possibly deep tree of plugin/node_modules/plugin folders > > with > > > possible duplicates. Npm's peer dependencies > > > <http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/02/07/peer-dependencies/> might be the > > right > > > solution, but I haven't looked at it yet. > > > > > > > > > I agree that Cordova is a build system to a very large extent. But then > > it > > > makes more sense to treat it as a tool to be used by other build > systems > > > rather than re-invent all the wheels on our own. > > > > > > Recently I tried building a cordova project with Gulp without using the > > > CLI, it works great. > > > https://github.com/kamrik/CordovaGulpTemplate > > > > > > Some time ago Carlos did a similar thing with Grunt: > > > https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-cordovacli > > > > > >
