+1 to Steve's suggestion
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Steven Gill <stevengil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Love these suggestions! > > I am a little uneasy about storing the platforms on registry.cordova.io. > Right now that database is just for plugins + views + ui and adding > platforms will require us to change some of the requests on > plugins.cordova.io. It is easy enough to do, but I think we have better > options available. > > Alternative: Publish platforms on npm > > Has the same advantages as storing on registry.cordova.io. CLI can just > add > the platform dependencies in their package.json. Easy to handle versioning. > Public viewable page for each platform. No more grabbing from apache git > servers. > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Andrew, this is the sane path, big +1 > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Michael Brooks < > mich...@michaelbrooks.ca > > >wrote: > > > > > Great suggestions Andrew! > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > > > > > I love it / lots of wins in there > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Right now, CLI downloads & caches platforms & plugins using two > > > different > > > > > mechanisms, with totally independent code paths. > > > > > > > > > > plugman uses the request library, with proxy settings in > > > .plugman/config. > > > > > It downloads the tars directly from registry.cordova.io. It does > not > > > > cache > > > > > them. > > > > > > > > > > CLI uses the request library as well, with proxy settings from > > .npmrc. > > > It > > > > > downloads tars directly from our git server's archive endpoint. It > > > caches > > > > > them in ~/.cordova. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'd like to propose that we unify them. Specifically: > > > > > > > > > > 1. Store platforms on registry.cordova.io > > > > > - This would allow CLI to easily see what versions of platforms > are > > > > > available, and be able to choose between them. > > > > > - This (I'm sure), INFRA would be much happier about than our > > current > > > > > fetch-from-git approach > > > > > > > > > > 2. Unify CLI & Plugman's downloading logic > > > > > - Use the same code-path for both. > > > > > - Have them use the same caching logic. > > > > > > > > > > 3. Use npm's cache logic instead of our own: > > > > > - Just type npm help cache to see what it does > > > > > - Would allow for: "cordova cache clean" > > > > > > > > > > I would *not* want to lose our support for --searchpath, as I think > > > it's > > > > > really handy. I don't see a problem with this though. > > > > > > > > > > This would also enable CLI to answer queries like "what platform > > > versions > > > > > are available", and make it trivial to do "install > > > cordova-android@3.0.0 > > > > " > > > > > > > > > > This isn't something I have time to work on in the near future, but > > > > wanted > > > > > to see if everyone would be onboard with the change. I'll end up > just > > > > > filing bugs for the changes if it sounds good... but if anyone else > > > wants > > > > > to work on it... :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
