I fall in the scenario described by Tommy, but Michael said "it all" (most of it): I keep my platforms under version control, so a _rm+add_ can be managed and brought back to what I expect the platform to be in the end. However, I do disagree in removing the concept of updates to the platfroms, even if it's only android.
Cordova has come a long way up to try and make the platforms pure artifacts and output from a build process, but the thing is that in real life, an application needs much more than what config.xml and it's preferences can give. Sometimes (I know it's rare) things go further down the line to changes in native code, something that cordova's shell can't offer. Even if it was a simple application that didn't need any changes in the native shell, somethings needed for a release are not configurable in config.xml, like the keystore info for android, the certificates and provisioning profiles in ios (which is a hell to config and get working), and stuff like that would have to be reconfigured after an update. To sum it up: having my platform folders completely rebuilt against my will on platform updates isn't a bad thing IN MY CASE, because I keep it under version control and therefore I have control over the changes in the end, however I'd prefer to have it be a separate command or an arg I could pass to "platform update". I'd like to have the update process improved and maintained, but if it's not a priority I can live without it. I have lived like that from 1.7 to 2.9.1, I can do it again :). 2014-10-01 23:03 GMT-03:00 Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org>: > I like Josh's suggestion to leave the upgrade command in, even if it just > maps to remove & add (for the record, we do this for cca). I also agree > with Tommy's concern that we shouldn't remove blindly (for the record, in > cca we warn and prompt for input that it will remove everything first). > > For those that don't treat platforms as artefacts, it seems not uncommon to > keep platforms in version control -- in which case this new type of upgrade > should not be dangerous or anything. > > -Michal > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Tommy Williams <to...@devgeeks.org> wrote: > > > Have we reached the point where ./platforms is a build artefact yet? > > > > If not, what is remaining? > > > > If we just removed their android platform and called it upgrade, I > suspect > > some people would lose work on their app. > > On 2 Oct 2014 11:18, "Andrew Grieve" <agri...@chromium.org> wrote: > > > > > There's been a couple bugs come in for Android where our update script > > has > > > failed to bring a project in line with what would be created for a new > > > project: CB-7683, CB-6772 > > > > > > We could put more effort into writing transformations into the update > > > script, but I think it might be more pragmatic to just tell people to > > > "platform rm android && platform add android". > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > -- *Frederico Galvão* Diretor de Tecnologia PontoGet Inovação Web ( +55(62) 8131-5720 * www.pontoget.com.br <http://www.pontoget.com/>
