Yes! Also quick q, are all experimental flags documented somewhere? (Other than code)
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015, 6:29 PM Parashuram N (MS OPEN TECH) < panar...@microsoft.com> wrote: > +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 > >
