+1 to graduating this out of experimental :) On 1/8/15, 4:25 PM, "Steven Gill" <stevengil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>+1 to remove --experimental > >On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Gorkem Ercan <gorkem.er...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> >> >> 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 >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
