Played around with it and it's pretty clear to me that the ability to record your plugins & platforms in config.xml is a big step up.
I do have some specific comments about the current design though: - Right now the plugin save saves all plugins to config.xml rather than just explicitly-installed plugins. - For the shrinkwrap use-case, you actually do want to record dependent plugins and their versions though, so it's still important for this case. - Plugin restore doesn't work for locally installed plugins. e.g. try it with mobilespec. It won't remember to look in the right spot for plugins. - Really don't like that <feature> is used, since that could be confused by the tools with the runtime config.xml's <feature> tag. Instead, I think the syntax PGBuild uses would be better (minus the gap:) http://docs.build.phonegap.com/en_US/configuring_plugins.md.html - Note there's a PR for adding <param> (CB-7142) When I was playing with it, I found that I wished that is would just run every time I added a plugin, rather than having to run the command explicitly afterwards. Maybe we could add an environment variable that will enable it while we're still experimenting? Then, too, we could make platform / plugin restore a part of `prepare`. Don't have the intention of picking up work on this in the near term, but wanted to at least share the feedback since I did play around with it.
