assests installation and removal

[cordovapolymer]

Problem

I'm using cordova-hot-code-push in my Polymer 1.x based project. As I'm currently debugging the project so I deploy non vulcanized files, total 121.24MB in 4106 files.

1.) It takes quite long time till the assets are installed so I see the message ASSETS_FOLDER_IN_NOT_YET_INSTALLED quite often, and if you will remove it as you stated in https://github.com/nordnet/cordova-hot-code-push/issues/161#issuecomment-230724698 , it would be quite confusing why the update doesn't start for the new users (as it by itself was for me, till I have realized that copy operation takes a long time). 2.) After several updates app starts to use too much space, is there a way to request old updates deletion after installing new?

System info

• Platform: Android
• Platform version:6.x
• Cordova version:6.x
• Node version:5.11

[nikDemyankov]

1.) It takes quite long time till the assets are installed so I see the message ASSETS_FOLDER_IN_NOT_YET_INSTALLED quite often, and if you will remove it as you stated in

161 (comment) , it would be quite confusing why the update doesn't start for the new users (as it by itself was for me, till I have realized that copy operation takes a long time).

You are probably right. I might leave it, but still want to store the request and execute it when assets installation is done.

2.) After several updates app starts to use too much space, is there a way to request old updates deletion after installing new?

During the lifetime app stores 3 copies of www folder:

• The bundled one. Can't be removed.
• The latest one: installed from the last update and displayed to the user. Needs to be there, since this is our working dir.
• The previous one as a backup. Theoretically, can be ignored. But no API for that at the moment.

[cordovapolymer]

You are probably right. I might leave it, but still want to store the request and execute it when assets installation is done.

I agree, it will be the best solution, I have expected such behavior when have been doing my initial hot-code-push tests.

[cordovapolymer]

The previous one as a backup. Theoretically, can be ignored. But no API for that at the moment.

It would be great to have an API to manage backups and recovery.

[nikDemyankov]

You are probably right. It would be nice to have some way to control it, since not everyone need that.

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