+1 Agreed I pretty much only use Cordova cli at this stage to make apps and as such don't have any issues keeping my node up to date or relying on is as a dependency.
M. Lantz On 2013-08-07, at 1:07 PM, Frank Hennig <fhe.developm...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 for all platforms > > I think it's not really an completely new dependency. Some components > actually depends on node.js like cordova-cli and plugman. Many developers of > cordova app's actually using grunt or bower and other node related stuff to > lint or to test their html and js code. > > A consistent tool and script language it's easier to maintain an to debug. > > > On Aug 7, 2013, at 12:14 AM, Filip Maj wrote: > >> I would like to introduce node.js as a dependency for the platform >> libraries, so that the platform scripts (bin/create, cordova/run, etc) are >> written in node. >> >> Pros: >> - For multi-OS platforms (Android, BlackBerry), this reduces committer >> cognitive load as the scripts do not need to be authored in two different >> script languages (I.e. Shell for unix-y Oses, Wscript for Windows) >> - consistency in tool/script language. Cordova-js, coho, cli and plugman >> are all written on top of node.js. >> >> Cons: >> - Introducing a new dependency >> >> NB: This is separate from platform-spec; I would like to see platform-spec >> created/used regardless of the outcome of this thread. >
