[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-3394) Use cordova platform downloads from npm

[Max Rydahl Andersen (JIRA)]

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Max Rydahl Andersen commented on JBDS-3394:
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moved from jbide to jbds to get it ack'ed.

The two only concerns I have is:

a) do we have any examples that uses pre-3.5.0 versions that we need to get updated ?

b) what happens if importing old/existing projects referring to these "overall" versions, will we gracefully convert them to use individual versions or how will that work ?

> Use cordova platform downloads from npm
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBDS-3394
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3394
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: aerogear-hybrid
>            Reporter: Gorkem Ercan
>            Assignee: Gorkem Ercan
>             Fix For: 9.0.0.Alpha2
>
>
> Switch to downloading the cordova platforms from npm and as a consequence limit the downloadable platform versions to what is available on npm. The plan is to continue to support building applications for Cordova version>3.0.0 but when a developer wants to download a cordova platform using JBDS/JBT, only versions 3.5.0 and later will be available. Configuring a manually downloaded cordova platforms on JBDS will still be available. 
> Around Cordova 3.5.0 time, Apache Cordova project switched to using npm for distributing cordova platforms. npm provides a much better infrastructure compared to the old way which is basically git archive mechanism. We already had cases where apache infrastructure was not available for maintenance. Also the lack of CDN does not help either. So I think JBDS should follow Apache Cordova and start using npm for downloading cordova platforms. Below are the list of relevant cordova platforms and version that are available today from npm.
> cordova-ios 
>  ['3.5.0', '3.6.0', '3.6.1', '3.6.3', '3.7.0', '3.8.0' ]
> cordova-android
> [ '3.5.0','3.5.1','3.6.0','3.6.1','3.6.3','3.6.4','3.7.0','3.7.1' ]
> cordova-wp8
> [ '3.5.0','3.6.0-dev','3.6.0','3.6.1','3.6.3','3.6.4','3.7.0-dev','3.7.0','3.7.1' ]



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