On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote:
> The reason CLI is reporting that number is because we tried to go semver in > an odd way (CAD-SEM) and CLI version was supposed to be just the SEM part > and the CAD was just informational -- which hasn't worked out so well. The > next CLI release is going to drop the old SEM and turn the existing CAD > into the new SEM. i.e.: npm install -g cordova@rc you'll notice that its > just 3.7.0. > There's also the issue that the CLI version doesn't necessarily correspond exactly to the platform versions. CLI 3.6.0-0.2.9 by default installs Android 3.6.0, for instance, but FFOS 3.6.1. And with independent platform releases, it's about to get a lot weirder. I don't know if a better question is which CLI version you used to create a project, or which platform versions are actually installed (which you can get from `cordova platfom ls`) Ian > > > w.r.t. reporting installed version and not workspace created version: the > version of the CLI that was used to create a project should not be what is > important. Its the current versions of the platforms and plugins within > your workspace that are actually important. > > This is because when you upgrade your CLI, we will not use the version that > was used to create the project any more. There have been proposals for > this, but its not implemented, we just assume you always want the latest > CLI to manage your workspace. > > This could become an issue if the CLI breaks compatibility with directory > structure / old platform/plugin structure, but that hasn't come up yet. If > that *does* happen, we can introduce a "created-with" at that point, and > use the lack of "created-with" as a signal for old version. > > For what its worth, for cca we drop a "created-with-cca-version" file > inside your platforms/ folder, since we currently also pin platforms. When > you upgrade your cca tool, we then know to prompt for a platforms upgrade. > I don't know if this will still be necessary with independent platform > releases. > > -Michal > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Ray Camden <rayca...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > I¹m posting this here as opposed to the Google Group as it seems like the > > type of thing that may have been discussed, then turned down, and I > > figured this list was best to answer why. > > > > Unless I¹m not seeing it, there is no way to tell what version of the CLI > > was used to build a project. Oddly ³cordova info² will return Cordova > > version, but for me, the # makes no sense. Here is one I got with a > recent > > project: 0.21.13. > > > > Is there a reason why 3.6.3 isn¹t returned and not saved in config.xml? > > > > I¹m assuming it is because plugin version info is more important, but I > > can definitely seeing wanting to know what CLI version was used. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > > > >
