[iOS] CDVPlugin method deprecations

[Shazron <sh...@gmail.com>]

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7000

They were documented in 2.x, but not in 3.x.
According to the deprecation policy
(http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/DeprecationPolicy), it will be
deprecated in the next release (changes are already in trunk), and
removed in 3.9.0.

If it was a publicly documented API, which it is not, it would have
been removed in 4.0 instead. Unless its a better idea to do this in
4.0?

Yup, some 3rd party plugins still use these methods.

(writing a blog post about this soon)

Re: [iOS] CDVPlugin method deprecations

[Shazron <sh...@gmail.com>]

Makes sense - no point in landing this early anyway which will create
friction because of "rules". I'll change the removal to 4.0

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Ian Clelland <ic...@chromium.org> wrote:
> I would suggest that we have every right to drop these in 3.9.0, as you
> say, but that in the interest of maintaining goodwill with the community,
> this should be a 4.0 change.
>
> If 4.0 also comes with iOS8 WKWebView support, then this has a strong
> parallel with Cordova-Android 4.0.x -- the overall direction of development
> for both platforms is "new WebView available, and changes may be needed to
> some plugins."
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Shazron <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7000
>>
>> They were documented in 2.x, but not in 3.x.
>> According to the deprecation policy
>> (http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/DeprecationPolicy), it will be
>> deprecated in the next release (changes are already in trunk), and
>> removed in 3.9.0.
>>
>> If it was a publicly documented API, which it is not, it would have
>> been removed in 4.0 instead. Unless its a better idea to do this in
>> 4.0?
>>
>> Yup, some 3rd party plugins still use these methods.
>>
>> (writing a blog post about this soon)
>>

Re: [iOS] CDVPlugin method deprecations

[Ian Clelland <ic...@chromium.org>]

I would suggest that we have every right to drop these in 3.9.0, as you
say, but that in the interest of maintaining goodwill with the community,
this should be a 4.0 change.

If 4.0 also comes with iOS8 WKWebView support, then this has a strong
parallel with Cordova-Android 4.0.x -- the overall direction of development
for both platforms is "new WebView available, and changes may be needed to
some plugins."


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Shazron <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7000
>
> They were documented in 2.x, but not in 3.x.
> According to the deprecation policy
> (http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/DeprecationPolicy), it will be
> deprecated in the next release (changes are already in trunk), and
> removed in 3.9.0.
>
> If it was a publicly documented API, which it is not, it would have
> been removed in 4.0 instead. Unless its a better idea to do this in
> 4.0?
>
> Yup, some 3rd party plugins still use these methods.
>
> (writing a blog post about this soon)
>