[jira] [Commented] (CB-7015) Support copying a lib-file from the SDK directory

["Martin Bektchiev (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Martin Bektchiev commented on CB-7015:
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This would make updates and hard to track incompatibilities such as https://github.com/phonegap-build/PushPlugin/pull/251 far more rare.

> Support copying a lib-file from the SDK directory
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CB-7015
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7015
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Plugman
>            Reporter: Martin Bektchiev
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Many plugins need to refer to JARs from the Android SDK. They currently embed a copy of the respective files in them and install it into the application's libs/ directory. This however might create incompatibility issues with other plugins which may use the same or dependent JARs.
> A good alternative would be to be able to specify a relative path to the SDK directory in <lib-file> as it is now possible with the <framework> element with custom=false.
> E.g. 
> <source-file src="src/android/com/plugin/android-support-v13.jar" target-dir="libs/" />
> could become 
> <lib-file src="extras/android/support/v13/android-support-v13.jar" from-sdk="true" />
> in https://github.com/phonegap-build/PushPlugin/blob/54e59bce6092ec44fe2005c166350fd85e75449b/plugin.xml#L64



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