[jira] [Updated] (CB-2163) Version handling and upgrading in cli tools

["Shazron Abdullah (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2163?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Shazron Abdullah updated CB-2163:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 2.7.0)
                   2.8.0
    
> Version handling and upgrading in cli tools
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CB-2163
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2163
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: CLI
>    Affects Versions: 2.3.0, 2.4.0, 2.5.0, 2.6.0
>            Reporter: Filip Maj
>            Assignee: Filip Maj
>             Fix For: 2.8.0
>
>
> We will lock the CLI to a version of cordova using its npm version. i.e. 2.5.x on npm uses 2.5.x of Cordova.
> We will use The Grunt Vision to enable users to move between versions: In Grunt .4 the global executable is dumb. It just shells to locally installed ./node_module version of Grunt. This enables project level versioning of Grunt. Nice feature. We can do the same thing: with the caveat that you would then require a package.json and ./node_modules folder in our Cordova projects.
> However, I'd like to propose a different approach to the CLI versioning and
> it can also solve the `create` command issue to help move towards a dumb
> global `cordova`.
> ## Cordova-CLI
> - npm version is still associated with a Cordova distribution
> - Cordova-CLI does not vendor the Cordova distribution
> - Adding a platform will lazy load the platform distribution into
> ~/.cordova/platform/name/version/
>     - We can lazy load by downloading a gzip from the Apache Git web server
> - Next time the platform is needed, it is copied from
> ~/.cordova/platform/name/version/
> ## Cordova Create
> - Creating an app should be a lazy load of the Hello World app
>    - Cached in ~/.cordova/platform/name/version/
> - We can update the Hello World app to match a standard Cordova CLI project
> - Now the global Cordova CLI is a dumb tool
>    - On create: lazy loading or copying the hello world app
>    - On project command: shelling to ./node_modules/bin/cordova <command>

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