Generally, I like it. We've discussed a somewhat variant in the past, and I'm not sure which is better:
Instead of installing locally every time a la grunt, we discussed having a single install base for the different cordova versions (i.e. inside ~/.cordova), and then cordova-cli is a short script that forks to launch the right version of cordova proper. The right version is (a) the most recent version if you are creating a new app, or (b) the version that is "tied" to a given workspace when used inside an existing app (and which you must explicitly upgrade). -Michal On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Carlos Santana <csantan...@gmail.com>wrote: > What does the community think of installing cordova only locally and not > globally? > > # Installing Cordova locally will provide: > > - A way to use different versions of cordova on the same system/os. > - A way to specify cordova as a dependency in package.json for an App > project > - A way to sandbox cordova and checking into source control for an App > project > > # [GruntJS](http://gruntjs.com/getting-started) is a project that already > takes this approach: > > 1. User installs `grunt-cli` globally instead of grunt > npm -g install grunt-cli` > > 2. User installs `grunt` locally > npm install grunt --save-dev > > 3. When user runs `grunt` it will run a short script `/usr/local/bin/grunt` > (about 40 lines) > It will resolve and use grunt from cwd (current working directory) > locally > > # Proposal: > > 1. Have 2 npm packages > - cordova-cli > - cordova > > 2. create cordova-cli package and update docs > cordova-cli will be almost indentical to grunt-cli > https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-cli/blob/master/bin/grunt > > 3. codova package is not longer get's install as `bin\cordova` and instead > run with > require(cordovapath).cli(); > > > --- > If you want to know more about grunt and why grunt swtiched from being > installed globally to now being install locally a podcast came out last > Friday where the author of GruntJS (Ben Alman) explains more details > http://javascriptjabber.com/074-jsj-grunt-js-with-ben-alman/ > > > -- > Carlos Santana > <csantan...@gmail.com> >
