> Instead of using a script to produce the source archive, why don't we > simply "git archive" the relevant tags of each cordova repository, > sign and checksum them, and release the results? the main reason is developer ergonomics; the repos are setup to work on cordova... but not to build project using cordova I think longer term we want to see coho expand to more general purpose building, and cordova itself to becoming nothing more than the bridging technology. (Builds then become composed of plugins the end developer chooses.)