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Posted to dev@cordova.apache.org by "Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon)" <v-...@microsoft.com> on 2014/07/02 13:05:11 UTC
switch to nodejs scripts for windows platforms
Currently on WP8 and Windows8 platform specific scripts (platform/cordova/lib) are written on cscript and powershell. On other platforms, Android/Blackberry as an example, we use nodejs. Are there any specific reason we don't use nodejs?
I see the following advantages of switching to nodejs:
1. More familiar api, ability to share code across platforms
2. Promises +module loader
3. Consistence across platforms
4. Some platform specific functionality could be moved from LIB to platforms (like LIB/src/cordova/metadata/blahblah_parser.js update_from_config )
Disadvantages:
1. nodejs requirement (currently you can build/run from platform folder using corresponding bat files w/o nodejs installed)
2. Requires implementation and regression testing
Thx!
Sergey
RE: switch to nodejs scripts for windows platforms
Posted by "Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon)" <v-...@microsoft.com>.
Hi Jesse, I've reviewed open Jira issues and here is the list of issues I'm starting working on.. There are also plugins related issues, I’ll focus on them in my second iteration. Regarding nodejs scripts - our team has recently performed experiments when path or application name contains Unicode chars (see attached) and found out that switching to NodeJS scripts can help us to resolve many of them so we would like to start working in this direction in parallel to other tasks.
CB-6787 Windows8 - Fix header licenses (Apache RAT report)
CB-5049 Create defaults.xml that contains platform config.xml defaults for WP8 + Review if the same is required for windows8
CB-6687 Cordova-cli prepare needs to overwrite any default values in platform config.xml
CB-7028 Memory leak in plugins when navigating from native page
CB-4938 NativeExecution is adding redundant callbacks on custom scripts
CB-4655 WP8: Default native project template should be overridable at project creation time
CB-3554 Use XAP Deployment Tool where available
CB-5211 Windows Phone 8 crashes if ajax-request with basic authentication is send with wrong credentials
WP8 Viewport and Scrolling issues:
CB-6946 Side stripes on WP8
CB-7059 Overscrolling in webview + CB-6231 Better approach for preventing rubberband in Windows Phone 8
Other
iOS/Android CB-6273 Support config.xml BackgroundColor property
Thx!
Sergey
-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse [mailto:purplecabbage@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2014 4:45 AM
To: dev@cordova.apache.org
Subject: Re: switch to nodejs scripts for windows platforms
Thanks Sergey,
All issues by default are assigned to me, if I have not set it to 'inProgress' you are welcome to re-assign it to yourself and work on it.
I'll let you decide what you 'want' to work on.
@purplecabbage
risingj.com
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon) < v-segreb@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Sounds good, Jesse feel free to assign some of those issues to me,
> will happy to help with them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: purplecabbage [mailto:purplecabbage@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 6:47 PM
> To: dev@cordova.apache.org
> Subject: Re: switch to nodejs scripts for windows platforms
>
> Yes, this is on the roadmap, at an extremely low priority.
> There are plenty of issues in jira I would like tackled before this.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 2, 2014, at 4:05 AM, "Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon)" <
> v-segreb@microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently on WP8 and Windows8 platform specific scripts
> (platform/cordova/lib) are written on cscript and powershell. On other
> platforms, Android/Blackberry as an example, we use nodejs. Are there
> any specific reason we don't use nodejs?
> >
> > I see the following advantages of switching to nodejs:
> >
> > 1. More familiar api, ability to share code across platforms
> >
> > 2. Promises +module loader
> >
> > 3. Consistence across platforms
> >
> > 4. Some platform specific functionality could be moved from LIB to
> platforms (like LIB/src/cordova/metadata/blahblah_parser.js
> update_from_config )
> >
> > Disadvantages:
> >
> > 1. nodejs requirement (currently you can build/run from platform
> folder using corresponding bat files w/o nodejs installed)
> >
> > 2. Requires implementation and regression testing
> >
> > Thx!
> > Sergey
>
Re: switch to nodejs scripts for windows platforms
Posted by Jesse <pu...@gmail.com>.
Thanks Sergey,
All issues by default are assigned to me, if I have not set it to
'inProgress' you are welcome to re-assign it to yourself and work on it.
I'll let you decide what you 'want' to work on.
@purplecabbage
risingj.com
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon) <
v-segreb@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Sounds good, Jesse feel free to assign some of those issues to me, will
> happy to help with them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: purplecabbage [mailto:purplecabbage@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 6:47 PM
> To: dev@cordova.apache.org
> Subject: Re: switch to nodejs scripts for windows platforms
>
> Yes, this is on the roadmap, at an extremely low priority.
> There are plenty of issues in jira I would like tackled before this.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 2, 2014, at 4:05 AM, "Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon)" <
> v-segreb@microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently on WP8 and Windows8 platform specific scripts
> (platform/cordova/lib) are written on cscript and powershell. On other
> platforms, Android/Blackberry as an example, we use nodejs. Are there any
> specific reason we don't use nodejs?
> >
> > I see the following advantages of switching to nodejs:
> >
> > 1. More familiar api, ability to share code across platforms
> >
> > 2. Promises +module loader
> >
> > 3. Consistence across platforms
> >
> > 4. Some platform specific functionality could be moved from LIB to
> platforms (like LIB/src/cordova/metadata/blahblah_parser.js
> update_from_config )
> >
> > Disadvantages:
> >
> > 1. nodejs requirement (currently you can build/run from platform
> folder using corresponding bat files w/o nodejs installed)
> >
> > 2. Requires implementation and regression testing
> >
> > Thx!
> > Sergey
>
RE: switch to nodejs scripts for windows platforms
Posted by "Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon)" <v-...@microsoft.com>.
Sounds good, Jesse feel free to assign some of those issues to me, will happy to help with them.
-----Original Message-----
From: purplecabbage [mailto:purplecabbage@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 6:47 PM
To: dev@cordova.apache.org
Subject: Re: switch to nodejs scripts for windows platforms
Yes, this is on the roadmap, at an extremely low priority.
There are plenty of issues in jira I would like tackled before this.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 2, 2014, at 4:05 AM, "Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon)" <v-...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Currently on WP8 and Windows8 platform specific scripts (platform/cordova/lib) are written on cscript and powershell. On other platforms, Android/Blackberry as an example, we use nodejs. Are there any specific reason we don't use nodejs?
>
> I see the following advantages of switching to nodejs:
>
> 1. More familiar api, ability to share code across platforms
>
> 2. Promises +module loader
>
> 3. Consistence across platforms
>
> 4. Some platform specific functionality could be moved from LIB to platforms (like LIB/src/cordova/metadata/blahblah_parser.js update_from_config )
>
> Disadvantages:
>
> 1. nodejs requirement (currently you can build/run from platform folder using corresponding bat files w/o nodejs installed)
>
> 2. Requires implementation and regression testing
>
> Thx!
> Sergey
Re: switch to nodejs scripts for windows platforms
Posted by purplecabbage <pu...@gmail.com>.
Yes, this is on the roadmap, at an extremely low priority.
There are plenty of issues in jira I would like tackled before this.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 2, 2014, at 4:05 AM, "Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon)" <v-...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Currently on WP8 and Windows8 platform specific scripts (platform/cordova/lib) are written on cscript and powershell. On other platforms, Android/Blackberry as an example, we use nodejs. Are there any specific reason we don't use nodejs?
>
> I see the following advantages of switching to nodejs:
>
> 1. More familiar api, ability to share code across platforms
>
> 2. Promises +module loader
>
> 3. Consistence across platforms
>
> 4. Some platform specific functionality could be moved from LIB to platforms (like LIB/src/cordova/metadata/blahblah_parser.js update_from_config )
>
> Disadvantages:
>
> 1. nodejs requirement (currently you can build/run from platform folder using corresponding bat files w/o nodejs installed)
>
> 2. Requires implementation and regression testing
>
> Thx!
> Sergey