I've now made this change (see JIRA issue). You can try it out via git's CLI. old projects see no change, but new project template now puts config.xml as a sibling to www.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: > After discussing this and reading the other thread (on config.json > movement), I agree this is not the time for the rename. > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org>wrote: > >> 1) Good point. Makes sense to me. >> >> 2) I think this is a tougher call. In on context, it does make more sense >> as "app.xml", since "config.xml" is the thing you're generating as an >> output. OTOH, there are a lot of tutorials & blog posts that say "put FOO >> in your config.xml", and so renaming it would be confusing in this context. >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org>wrote: >> >>> 1) Wouldn't it make more sense to default to the root config.xml if both >>> are present? If you create a new project and import an old www project >>> using a new CLI (--source or --link), you would get both configuration >>> files (one at the root created by the template, and one inside your >>> imported www). Wouldn't you expect to use the new config file in this >>> case, perhaps with a warning to delete the old one? Not a big deal I guess >>> if you have a warning in either case. >>> 2) Do we want to rename config.xml to app.xml (or something else) to >>> finally kill the confusion between "platform config.xml" vs "project >>> config.xml"? >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org>wrote: >>> >>>> Looks like there's already a JIRA for this: >>>> >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4910 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> > I'll make a JIRA issue on Tuesday and paste the link to it here. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Ross Gerbasi <rgerb...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> >> Did this make it to jira? I also think its a good idea to pull >>>> config.xml >>>> >> out of the www root. Anyway to track this one? >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Dick Van den Brink < >>>> >> d_vandenbr...@outlook.com> wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> > I think it is a a good idea! So a +1 >>>> >> > >>>> >> > Sent from my Windows Phone >>>> >> > ________________________________ >>>> >> > From: Axel Nennker<mailto:ignisvul...@gmail.com> >>>> >> > Sent: 12/30/2013 20:47 >>>> >> > To: dev<mailto:dev@cordova.apache.org> >>>> >> > Subject: Re: Moving www/config.xml -> config.xml (within CLI) >>>> >> > >>>> >> > I support this proposal. >>>> >> > >>>> >> > When I started work on CB-2606 >>>> >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2606I noticed that the >>>> >> > element <icon src="icon.png"... /> >>>> >> > suggests that icons are put next to config.xml as well. >>>> >> > When config.xml is in the project root it becomes more natural to >>>> put >>>> >> icons >>>> >> > in <project root>/res/icons/<platform>/icon.png >>>> >> > >>>> >> > -Axel >>>> >> > >>>> >> > ps: >>>> >> > I need opinions on my current implementation of CB-2606. >>>> >> > https://github.com/AxelNennker/cordova-cli >>>> >> > Please chime in to the email thread with the subject "Started >>>> >> Implementing >>>> >> > CB-2606 Add support for <icon in config.xml" >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > 2013/12/30 Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> >>>> >> > >>>> >> > > I thought this was previously discussed, but I can't find any >>>> JIRA >>>> >> issues >>>> >> > > or old emails about it. >>>> >> > > >>>> >> > > Proposal: >>>> >> > > For CLI projects: >>>> >> > > - Use www/config.xml if it exists >>>> >> > > - Otherwise use ./config.xml >>>> >> > > - Change the project template to use ./config.xml by default >>>> >> > > >>>> >> > > >>>> >> > > Reasons: >>>> >> > > - Paths in config.xml are relative to project root >>>> >> > > - Prevents a copy of config.xml ended up in platforms/*/www >>>> >> > > - Manifests are generally found at the top-level of projects. >>>> >> > > >>>> >> > > >>>> >> > > Sound good? If so I'll make an issue and work on this. Since it's >>>> >> > holidays, >>>> >> > > will wait until next week Tuesday (Jan 7) to proceed. >>>> >> > > >>>> >> > > Andrew >>>> >> > > >>>> >> > >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >>> >>> >> >
