What is Cordova, and how does it relate to PhoneGap?

Question

I understand that PhoneGap was acquired by Adobe, and that now it has been assimilated into Cordova (Part of Apache). But what does all this mean? Are they the same product? Or

Answer 1

From https://github.com/brianleroux/cordova README.md

A PhoneGap project toolchain that automates common tasks for building cross platform mobile projects with OS X.

Automate common development workflow tasks such as: compiling, debugging, testing, releasing and other things in between. As an added benefit projects generated with Cordova create a consistent, predictable, easy to understand and therefor extend software project. A number of conventions are introduced removing the need for mobile developers to relearn their tools or, worse, rebuild them for every project.

PhoneGap and Cordova are not the same, Cordova is a toolchain that enhances PhoneGap project developments