On 8 Jan 2015, at 17:29, Mefire O. wrote:
Hi all,
I am a big fan of the experimental "save" and "restore" features that
are in the CLI and saw that Gorkem has also created another PR
(https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/pull/143 ) to have a setting to
auto persist/restore plugin versions which is a really interesting
idea.
Glad it helps someone. The current PR is for plugins and I will send a
PR for platforms too. The ultimate goal is to be able to remove
platforms and plugins folder completely.
On a related note, one issue I ran into with platform save/restore is
when you need to involve multiple operating systems for a given
project. Ex: Targeting say iOS, Windows, and Ubuntu from the same
project or simply have some team members on OSX or Linux while others
are on Windows - you need to be able to "save" or "restore" only
platforms that run on the OS you are currently using.
For the restore situation, it seems to make quite a bit of sense to
use any version information in config.xml when you add a platform by
default. The fact the information in is in config.xml indicates the
goal is consistency.
Here is a PR that adds this functionality for platforms:
https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/pull/140#issuecomment-68942932
This functionality makes a lot of sense especially if/when it supports
git urls?
With that in mind, we could also follow that familiar pattern that
exists with npm and package.json to help out when you want to quickly
save the platform you added to config.xml.
Ex:
cordova platform add android --save
I think we should have support for --save on plugins add/remove as well.
Ultimately, I think users of this functionality configure their projects
to be auto restore and use this or the save/restore commands to specify
what needs to be restored.
There is one catch with the implementation though. Save and restore are
still called with --experimental, perhaps we need to remove
--experimental before this can proceed.
...adds the latest android platform and updates config.xml with the
version that was added. As always, you can always use the existing
syntax to add a different version (cordova platform add
android@4.0.0<mailto:android@4.0.0>). I'm planning on putting together
a PR on that idea as well. We could actually follow a similar model
for plugins as well.
Thanks,
Mefire
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