Question about the roadmap for deprecations in iOS (plugin related)

[Tommy Williams <to...@devgeeks.org>]

Hi,

I was whipping up a plugin a couple days ago for iOS that needed to push a modal view controller much like ChildBrowser does: 

presentModalViewController:animated: 

I looked at how ChildBrowser managed this from within a plugin and tried implementing it in my plugin, but got a great many warnings about deprecations. I looked into it and these are the deprecations that were part of the changes made to support using PhoneGap/Cordova as a component in 1.4.x. I imagine the widely used ChildBrowser will also be affected. 

the ticket at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-166 mentions upgrade docs are planned, but they seemed to be more about upgrading projects ("create a new project", yadda yadda) more so than upgrading from a plugin standpoint.

tl;dr version:

Is there a plan for a guide on upgrading plugins that rely on PhoneGapViewController or [super appController] etc?


To be honest, I would be just as happy with someone updating ChildBrowser so I can mooch off that work, but it would be nice for plugin devs to have a bit more documentation. Plugins break with new releases quite frequently causing issues for the devs as well as implementers of the plugins.

Just for the record, I am not just complaining, I am also putting my hand up for that documentation if I can help.


-- 
Tommy-Carlos Williams
tommy@devgeeks.org

Re: Question about the roadmap for deprecations in iOS (plugin related)

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

I've written and checked in the Plugin Upgrade Guide (you might have
to wait until the Github mirror updates):
https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-ios/blob/master/guides/Cordova%20Plugin%20Upgrade%20Guide.md

(raw here https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cordova-ios.git;a=blob_plain;f=guides/Cordova+Plugin+Upgrade+Guide.md;hb=HEAD
)

Tommy - let me know your feedback, or even send a pull request to
improve it. We can continue the discussion in the issue as well:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-251


Shaz

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Shazron <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-251
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Shazron <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Tommy,
>> On iOS - I'm afraid with all the renaming to Cordova - it will break
>> again with 1.5. I'll add an issue for a Plugin Upgrade Guide, with an
>> existing plugin (ChildBrowser is a good candidate) as an example. With
>> 1.5 all the deprecations you see in 1.4 are removed.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Tommy Williams <to...@devgeeks.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was whipping up a plugin a couple days ago for iOS that needed to push a modal view controller much like ChildBrowser does:
>>>
>>> presentModalViewController:animated:
>>>
>>> I looked at how ChildBrowser managed this from within a plugin and tried implementing it in my plugin, but got a great many warnings about deprecations. I looked into it and these are the deprecations that were part of the changes made to support using PhoneGap/Cordova as a component in 1.4.x. I imagine the widely used ChildBrowser will also be affected.
>>>
>>> the ticket at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-166 mentions upgrade docs are planned, but they seemed to be more about upgrading projects ("create a new project", yadda yadda) more so than upgrading from a plugin standpoint.
>>>
>>> tl;dr version:
>>>
>>> Is there a plan for a guide on upgrading plugins that rely on PhoneGapViewController or [super appController] etc?
>>>
>>>
>>> To be honest, I would be just as happy with someone updating ChildBrowser so I can mooch off that work, but it would be nice for plugin devs to have a bit more documentation. Plugins break with new releases quite frequently causing issues for the devs as well as implementers of the plugins.
>>>
>>> Just for the record, I am not just complaining, I am also putting my hand up for that documentation if I can help.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tommy-Carlos Williams
>>> tommy@devgeeks.org
>>>
>>>
>>>

Re: Question about the roadmap for deprecations in iOS (plugin related)

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

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-251

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Shazron <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Tommy,
> On iOS - I'm afraid with all the renaming to Cordova - it will break
> again with 1.5. I'll add an issue for a Plugin Upgrade Guide, with an
> existing plugin (ChildBrowser is a good candidate) as an example. With
> 1.5 all the deprecations you see in 1.4 are removed.
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Tommy Williams <to...@devgeeks.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was whipping up a plugin a couple days ago for iOS that needed to push a modal view controller much like ChildBrowser does:
>>
>> presentModalViewController:animated:
>>
>> I looked at how ChildBrowser managed this from within a plugin and tried implementing it in my plugin, but got a great many warnings about deprecations. I looked into it and these are the deprecations that were part of the changes made to support using PhoneGap/Cordova as a component in 1.4.x. I imagine the widely used ChildBrowser will also be affected.
>>
>> the ticket at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-166 mentions upgrade docs are planned, but they seemed to be more about upgrading projects ("create a new project", yadda yadda) more so than upgrading from a plugin standpoint.
>>
>> tl;dr version:
>>
>> Is there a plan for a guide on upgrading plugins that rely on PhoneGapViewController or [super appController] etc?
>>
>>
>> To be honest, I would be just as happy with someone updating ChildBrowser so I can mooch off that work, but it would be nice for plugin devs to have a bit more documentation. Plugins break with new releases quite frequently causing issues for the devs as well as implementers of the plugins.
>>
>> Just for the record, I am not just complaining, I am also putting my hand up for that documentation if I can help.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tommy-Carlos Williams
>> tommy@devgeeks.org
>>
>>
>>

Re: Question about the roadmap for deprecations in iOS (plugin related)

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

Thanks Tommy,
On iOS - I'm afraid with all the renaming to Cordova - it will break
again with 1.5. I'll add an issue for a Plugin Upgrade Guide, with an
existing plugin (ChildBrowser is a good candidate) as an example. With
1.5 all the deprecations you see in 1.4 are removed.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Tommy Williams <to...@devgeeks.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was whipping up a plugin a couple days ago for iOS that needed to push a modal view controller much like ChildBrowser does:
>
> presentModalViewController:animated:
>
> I looked at how ChildBrowser managed this from within a plugin and tried implementing it in my plugin, but got a great many warnings about deprecations. I looked into it and these are the deprecations that were part of the changes made to support using PhoneGap/Cordova as a component in 1.4.x. I imagine the widely used ChildBrowser will also be affected.
>
> the ticket at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-166 mentions upgrade docs are planned, but they seemed to be more about upgrading projects ("create a new project", yadda yadda) more so than upgrading from a plugin standpoint.
>
> tl;dr version:
>
> Is there a plan for a guide on upgrading plugins that rely on PhoneGapViewController or [super appController] etc?
>
>
> To be honest, I would be just as happy with someone updating ChildBrowser so I can mooch off that work, but it would be nice for plugin devs to have a bit more documentation. Plugins break with new releases quite frequently causing issues for the devs as well as implementers of the plugins.
>
> Just for the record, I am not just complaining, I am also putting my hand up for that documentation if I can help.
>
>
> --
> Tommy-Carlos Williams
> tommy@devgeeks.org
>
>
>