Ok, so now we're off my initial question and into a debate. :) I think you are absolutely right - there are more powerful solutions - but that doesn't negate the ease of use of merges. The simplicity of it may be just fine for many use cases.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Carlos Santana <[email protected]> wrote: > If people wants achieve to do what merges do, I recommend hooks or custom > build process (i.e. npm scripts, gulp, grunt, ant, perl, ruby, etc) or > running custom build from hooks. > > There is more flexibility and control thru hooks than merges. > > - Carlos > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 1, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Raymond Camden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> K good enough for me. I don't agree with you. ;) >> >>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Carlos Santana <[email protected]> wrote: >>> In my personal opinion it's not a best practice anymore to use merges. >>> >>> The feature works today if you create a folder "merges" >>> >>> cordova create doesn't create it by default >>> It will not go away, visual studio leverages the "merges" folder in their >>> cordova templates. >>> >>> It will not be remove or deprecated, and at the same time will not be >>> highlighted as a main Cordova "F"eature >>> >>> >>> - Carlos >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Sep 1, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Raymond Camden <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> That's not what I'm asking though. What I'm asking is - as a "Feature" >>>> (capital F ;) of Cordova, is it something that is going away? >>>> >>>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Carlos Santana <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> For mfp cordova it's not needed, there are modern ways of achieving this. >>>>> >>>>> In cordova you can use hooks and merges >>>>> More advance users can use their build tooling like grunt, gulp, etc. >>>>> >>>>> - Carlos >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>> On Sep 1, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Raymond Camden <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Just a quick question - is merges as a feature going away? I haven't >>>>>> seen anything about that here, but just checking. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> =========================================================================== >>>>>> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM >>>>>> >>>>>> Email : [email protected] >>>>>> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com >>>>>> Twitter: raymondcamden >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> =========================================================================== >>>> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM >>>> >>>> Email : [email protected] >>>> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com >>>> Twitter: raymondcamden >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> =========================================================================== >> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM >> >> Email : [email protected] >> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com >> Twitter: raymondcamden >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- =========================================================================== Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM Email : [email protected] Blog : www.raymondcamden.com Twitter: raymondcamden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
