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Confused with updates - Need a bit of explanation please #301

Closed Benoit1980 closed 5 years ago

Benoit1980 commented 5 years ago

Hello,

I find the Phonegap website very confusing.

To update Phonegap we should run this command: npm install -g phonegap

The version I get is: 8.0.0

But, on this website it shows 8.1.1 https://cordova.apache.org/news/2018/09/27/cordova-cli-8.1.1.html

Why this version is not included in the npm install -g phonegap command?

The other issue I have is that the package.json is updated to "cordova-android": "^7.0.0"

But on this website is shows that the latest version is 7.1.0 https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2018/02/26/cordova-android-7.1.0.html

Could someone please explain to me how does all of this works as I am more and more confused about Phonegap.

Thank you.

ps:I have tried with the Node version 8.12, same issue.

purplecabbage commented 5 years ago

cordova tooling, phonegap tooling, and the platform cordova-android each have their own versions.

re: tooling Cordova tooling might be updated, for example going from 8.0.0->8.1.0->8.1.1, however PhoneGap still has a dependency on 8.0.0 ... Everything does not always get updated at the same time.

re: platform updates When you added cordova-android to your project, the version was probably 7.0.0, and since then a newer version has come out. This does not update your project magically. If you want to update to the latest version of cordova-android, you can do phonegap platform rm android phonegap platform add android@7.1.0

Benoit1980 commented 5 years ago

Thank you so much, great explanation