[CB-4624] Allow apps to specify plugin dependencies within their config.xml

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: cordova-cli
• Assignee: Mark Koudritsky
• Reporter: Andrew Grieve
• Created: 19/Aug/13 19:26
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:16
• Resolved: 24/Apr/14 20:55

Description

Use-case: Be able to have plugins/ and platforms/ in your .gitignore

Be able to specify what plugins an app depends on within config.xml. The list should be updated whenever you perform a "cordova plugin add", just like "npm install --save" does for node. If no commit is specified, then the latest is downloaded and the hash is extracted & saved into the config.xml.

The syntax should match that of <dependency> tags within the plugin spec:
http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/3.0.0/plugin_ref_spec.md.html#Plugin%20Specification. Note that there's an open issue to fold the commit/subdir into the URI (CB-4622).

We'll need a new command for installing dependencies. Maybe:
"cordova install"?
"cordova plugin install"?
"cordova project init"?

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CB-6469 Restore plugins from config.xml
• is duplicated by: CB-5775 Save list of installed plugins and their installed versions in separate json file
• relates to: CB-5218 config.json should also carry the the engine information
• relates to: CB-4735 Support optional plugin dependancies