[CB-7100] Use npm for downloading plugins and platform files

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-cli
• Assignee: Mark Koudritsky
• Reporter: Mark Koudritsky
• Created: 08/Jul/14 23:03
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:51
• Resolved: 15/May/18 05:06

Description

We currently download the files cordova needs in several different ways.
Switch to using "npm cache add" for most or all of the downloads.

Previous commits related to this:
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-lib.git;h=6b2ad7f2eb
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-lib.git;h=55810360fe