[CB-7904] Built nightly releases using coho

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-cli, cordova-coho, cordova-lib
• Assignee: Vladimir Kotikov
• Reporter: Steve Gill
• Created: 30/Oct/14 03:02
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:52
• Resolved: 23/Jun/16 07:49

Description

I am working on adding a new command: ```coho nightly```

How it works:
1) Update repos for all platforms + cli + lib to latest commits
2) grab commit hash for every platform and save it to shas.json in the cli repo
3) Replace version field in cordova-lib/src/cordova/platformsConfig.json (formally platforms.js) for each platform with the sha.
4) Update versions of cli + lib to remove `-dev` and add `-night.YEAR.MONTH.DAY`
5) Run `npm test` for cli + lib
6) Publish to npm under nightly tag.
7) Install with `npm install -g cordova@nightly`

Using updated cli + tools, you would have to do `cordova platform add --usegit` when adding platforms now.

This script would run once a day. Set it up as a cron job on some server.

Nothing will be committed back, no branches, no tags.

PR incoming

Issue Links

• Blocked: CB-11261 Cordova@nightly fails to install any plugin with <engine name="cordova">
• is depended upon by: CB-7930 create coho toolsRelease command based off nightly
• relates to: CB-11262 Add a warning about prerelease lib/cli usage
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #123

Sub-Tasks

• Make cordova@next alias to cordova@nightly: Open