PhoneGap和Cordova的區別

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There has been some confusion in the phonegap community and to complement Simeon Bateman’s recent blog post, I want to make sure that everyone understands the entire story behind the PhoneGap name and how it relates to Apache cordova.

最近PhoneGap社區發生不少問題，因此我想讓全部人都能理解PhoneGap的神祕的故事和它與Apache Cordova的聯繫。

Late last year, Adobe/Nitobi donated the PhoneGap codebase to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for incubation. We wanted to ensure proper stewardship of the source of PhoneGap, and to maintain a transparent and open governance that was well documented and understood. We also wanted to make it easier for other large organizations to contribute. Many companies are not only comfortable with the Apache organization and license, but already have a CLA with Apache.

在上一年（指的是2011年）Adobe/Nitobi把PhoneGap的源代碼 貢獻給Apache軟件基金會（ASF）託管。咱們想PhoenGap的源碼可以透明，公開，文檔可以更加齊全已經更容易理解。咱們一樣想大公司來共同參 與這個項目。許多公司都熟悉Apace這個組織和其許可說明，身子有一些仍是Apache的代碼貢獻者。

As a result of the contribution, we were required to ensure that the intellectual property was unfettered by trademark ambiguity. This presented us with the hard requirement to rename PhoneGap in its open source form as a project incubating at Apache. The name we first choose was Apache Callback, which was dumb for a host of reasons and quickly the community renamed it to Cordova. While genesis stories of PhoneGap often vary with the teller, most committers can agree the project was born at Nitobi, when the office was on Cordova Street in Vancouver.

做爲代碼貢獻，我比必須確保商標的知識產權可以自由使用。因此，咱們必須修改 PhoneGap在Apache託管下的名字，首先咱們選擇了「Apache Callback」，不事後來呢，社區很快的就把名字改爲未Cordova。當時PhoneGap的來歷在不一樣的人口中都不斷的變化，但至關多的一部分人 贊成其出生在Nitobi，其辦公室當時就在溫哥華的Cordova路。

What’s the difference between Apache Cordova and PhoneGap?

Apache Cordova和PhoneGap有什麼區別呢？

PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. You can think of Apache Cordova as the engine that powers PhoneGap, similar to how WebKit is the engine that powers Chrome or Safari. (Browser geeks, please allow me the affordance of this analogy and I’ll buy you a beer later.)

PhoneGap是Apache Cordova的一個分支。你能夠這樣想，Apache Cordova是一臺發動機，運行在PhoneGap上，就像WebKit這個瀏覽器引擎運行在Chrome瀏覽器和Safari瀏覽器上。

Over time, the PhoneGap distribution may contain additional tools that tie into other Adobe services, which would not be appropriate for an Apache project. For example, PhoneGap Build and Adobe Shadow together make a whole lot of strategic sense. PhoneGap will always remain free, open source software and will always be a free distribution of Apache Cordova.

隨着時間的推移，PhoneGap可能會加入其它的Adobe的服務，而這些服務不 適合發佈到Apache的項目上。例如，PhoneGap和Adobe Shadow就有一大堆的戰略方針。不過不用擔憂，PhoneGap會持續地保持免費開源並且在Apache Cordova上也是免費的。

Currently, the only difference is in the name of the download package and will remain so for some time.

目前，惟一不一樣的就是下載包的名稱，而且會持續一段時間。

What is Apache Cordova to a PhoneGap developer? (i.e. someone who just wants to build apps)

怎麼從Apache Cordova轉型PhoenGap開發者？

As a developer building PhoneGap applications, nothing has changed. PhoneGap is still free, openly licensed, and the main focus of the PhoneGap team. If your goal is to build cross platform apps with HTML, JS and CSS then keep on using PhoneGap for everything you need. This isn’t to say the transition has been perfect. We messed up the last release by not correctly updating the documentation to reflect the name change which confused new users. Future releases will have checks in place to ensure our documentation has the correct references. If you happen to be reading this and nodding in frustration, I encourage you to use http://docs.phonegap.com as the canonical source for edge documentation. If you want to help us keep this stuff on point, please read on.

做爲一個開發者，建立一個PhoneGap應用，沒有任何的變化。PhoneGap 仍然是免費，開源受權和PhoneGap團隊的主要成員。若是你要創建HTML、JS和CSS的APP，你能夠保持不變使用PhoneGap的任何功能。 這並非，這個過渡已經完美了，咱們搞砸了之前的版本，沒有及時更新文件名，致使困惑了新的用戶。後續的版本，咱們會檢查到以確保提提供正確的文檔。若是 你碰巧看到這篇文章，不用懼怕，我建議你使用http://docs.phonegap.com做爲正規的技術文檔來閱讀。若是你得到這東西的幫助，就閱讀它吧。

 

原文：

http://www.phonegap100.com/article-135-1.html