Drop support for linking (§8)

[raphinesse]

From @raphinesse on July 5, 2018 9:4

Current situation

Ignoring all special cases discussed in #103, cordovaCreate w/ enabled link option will

• symlink folders www, merges and hooks
• symlink the file config.xml

Pain Points

• The current implementation does not seem to solve any valid use cases
• This is a major impediment to a sane implementation of chore: bump 4.0.0-dev #69. Especially the need for renaming to .gitingore in cordova-create (CB-12397 fix .gitignore for plugins & platforms (cordova-create part) #8), is heavily conflicting with the linking feature.
• Needs special privileges on Windows since it also links files.
• hooks is deprecated

Proposal

Drop it. 🔥

It seems it was planned to remove --link-to before apache/cordova-discuss#49 (comment). Support was then removed in apache/cordova-lib#456 and re-added in 79cace5 addressing https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11623 which is still open because the current implementation apparently still not satisfies the reporter's requirements. 😒

The reporter's requirements are to create a cordova project with www linking to some existing web app. This could be easily achieved by running

$ cordova create bin com.example.domain APPNAME
$ rm -r bin/www && ln -sr www bin/www

instead of

$ cordova create bin com.example.domain APPNAME --link-to=www

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Evolved from apache/cordova-discuss#89

Copied from original issue: apache/cordova-discuss#104