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[cordova-docs] branch janpio-win6 updated: change date,
fix tiny stuff
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new 8048499 change date, fix tiny stuff
8048499 is described below
commit 80484995b8239e4725ca1a38c48feee31ed102da
Author: Jan Piotrowski <pi...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Feb 27 18:38:43 2018 +0100
change date, fix tiny stuff
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1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/www/_posts/2018-02-23-cordova-windows-6.0.0.md b/www/_posts/2018-02-27-cordova-windows-6.0.0.md
similarity index 73%
rename from www/_posts/2018-02-23-cordova-windows-6.0.0.md
rename to www/_posts/2018-02-27-cordova-windows-6.0.0.md
index fd0ac81..40a1f37 100644
--- a/www/_posts/2018-02-23-cordova-windows-6.0.0.md
+++ b/www/_posts/2018-02-27-cordova-windows-6.0.0.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
layout: post
author:
name: Jan Piotrowski
- url: https://twitter.com/sujan
+ url: https://twitter.com/Sujan
title: "Cordova Windows 6.0.0 Released!"
categories: announcements
tags: news releases
@@ -14,17 +14,17 @@ This is a major release that changes functionality you might rely on, so please
## Changes
-- **Windows 10 / UWP** builds are now default, meaning `cordova build windows` will now build a Windows 10 UWP app by default. Windows (Phone) 8.1 is still supported of course, just use `cordova build windows -- --appx=8.1-win`, `cordova build windows -- --appx=8.1-phone` or an equivalent configuration option.
+- **Windows 10 / UWP** builds are now default, meaning `cordova build windows` will now build a Windows 10 UWP app by default. Windows (Phone) 8.1 is still supported, of course, just use `cordova build windows -- --appx=8.1-win`, `cordova build windows -- --appx=8.1-phone` or an equivalent configuration option.
- You can now build apps with a current installation of **Visual Studio 2017** (`15.5.x` at the time of writing) without any additional configuration or hacks (like the environment variable `VSINSTALLDIR` that was required for 5.0.0).
- * Note: [Visual Studio 2017 doesn't support Windows 8.1 apps any more](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs2017-compatibility-vs#windows-store-and-windows-phone-apps), so you can only build these apps with Visual Studio 2015 installed.
+ - Note: [Visual Studio 2017 doesn't support Windows 8.1 apps anymore](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs2017-compatibility-vs#windows-store-and-windows-phone-apps), so you can only build these apps with Visual Studio 2015 installed.
- New **ENV variable `MSBUILDDIR`** allows to directly configure the MSBuild Tools to be used to build the app. While `VSINSTALLDIR` always has been a hack that accidentally also worked to switch between different MSBuildTools versions, we now we this functionality explicit: Just set the ENV var to a your desired MSBuild folder (e.g. `C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin` or `C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\`) and it will be used to buil [...]
- * If you have Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2015 installed at the same time, the normal logic would always choose Visual Studio 2017's MSBuild 15 - and fail on a Windows (Phone) 8.1 project. If you set the environment variable MSBuild 14, it can successfully build your 8.1 apps.
- * If the supplied path is invalid or doesn't contain a working MSBuild, the normal MSBuild selection logic will be triggered
+ - If you have Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2015 installed at the same time, the normal logic would always choose Visual Studio 2017's MSBuild 15 - and fail on a Windows (Phone) 8.1 project. If you set the environment variable MSBuild 14, it can successfully build your 8.1 apps.
+ - If the supplied path is invalid or doesn't contain a working MSBuild, the normal MSBuild selection logic will be triggered
- Fixes several bugs
## Installation
-As usual this new version will be added as the default `cordova-windows` version for `cordova plattform add windows` only with the next release of Cordova CLI. Until then, please use these commands to remove and re-add the `windows` platform:
+As usual, this new version will be added as the default `cordova-windows` version for `cordova platform add windows` only with the next release of Cordova CLI. Until then, please use these commands to remove and re-add the `windows` platform:
```
cordova platform rm windows
@@ -45,12 +45,12 @@ If you encounter problems with this new version, you can use the [GitHub issues
## The future of `cordova-windows`
-Working on this update reminded us how much code there is to support other platform variants beside Windows 10 Desktop / UWP, specifically Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 but also Windows 10 Mobile.
+Working on this update reminded us how much code there is to support other platform variants besides Windows 10 Desktop / UWP, specifically Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 but also Windows 10 Mobile.
-As Microsoft recently ended mainstream support for all **Windows 8.1** variants, total market share recedes below 6% and Visual Studio 2017 doesn't support 8.1 development any more, we don't expect any future changes that would require updates to `cordova-windows`'s 8.1 support. Same for **Windows 10 Mobile**, which is not under active development by Microsoft any more and will not receive any other updates than security fixes.
+As Microsoft recently ended mainstream support for all **Windows 8.1** variants, total market share recedes below 6% and Visual Studio 2017 doesn't support 8.1 development anymore, we don't expect any future changes that would require updates to `cordova-windows`' 8.1 support. Same for **Windows 10 Mobile**, which is not under active development by Microsoft anymore and will not receive any other updates than security fixes.
-Because of that, we decided to **depracte all "mobile" and "phone" build targets of `cordova-windows`**. In the near future we will release a `7.0.0` version that will remove support for those platform variants and focus on Windows 10 UWP - which will greatly reduce complexity and simplify future maintenance.
-`cordova-windows 6.0.0` with support for these platforms of course will stay available and receive bugfixes if necessary (Similar to how `cordova-windows@4` was the last version to support Windows 8.0).
+Because of that, we decided to **deprecate all "mobile" and "phone" build targets of `cordova-windows`**. In the near future, we will release a `7.0.0` version that will remove support for those platform variants and focus on Windows 10 UWP - which will greatly reduce complexity and simplify future maintenance.
+`cordova-windows 6.0.0` with support for these platforms, of course, will stay available and receive bugfixes if necessary (Similar to how `cordova-windows@4` was the last version to support Windows 8.0).
Please tell us in the comments to this blog post if you have any objections or comments to these plans.
@@ -58,12 +58,12 @@ Please tell us in the comments to this blog post if you have any objections or c
## Curated Changelog
* [CB-13889](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13889) Allow test failures for Visual Studio 2017 environments (#263)
-* [CB-13878](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13878) MSBUILDDIR env variable (#262)
+* [CB-13878](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13878) `MSBUILDDIR` env variable (#262)
* [CB-13883](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13883) Visual Studio 2017 support (#261)
-* [CB-13877](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13877) Clean up MSBuildTools.js (#259)
-* [CB-13870](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13870) Improve check_reqs (#258)
+* [CB-13877](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13877) Clean up `MSBuildTools.js` (#259)
+* [CB-13870](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13870) Improve `check_reqs` (#258)
* [CB-13877](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13877) more env information about msbuild and visual studio on appveyor (#257)
-* [CB-13877](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13877) First MSBuildTools.js work: Debug output, move misplaced method, comments (#255)
+* [CB-13877](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13877) First `MSBuildTools.js` work: Debug output, move misplaced method, comments (#255)
* [CB-13875](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13875) add `prepare` script that can be called in e2e tests (#254)
* [CB-13817](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13817) Add new alias `uwp` for `--appx` param including tests (#251)
* [CB-13870](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13870) change default from UAP to 10.0 (#253)
@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ Please tell us in the comments to this blog post if you have any objections or c
* [CB-13641](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13641) support transparent splash screen background color. (#245)
* [CB-13175](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13175) fixing Windows8.1 crash on startup
* [CB-13422](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13422) (windows) Fix typo in build error message
-* [CB-12895](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12895) ignoring cordova.js for eslint & removing comments and references to jshint
+* [CB-12895](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12895) ignoring `cordova.js` for eslint & removing comments and references to jshint
* [CB-13237](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13237) Default to UAP
* [CB-13155](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13155) Improved target parsing
-* [CB-13022](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13022) Correct a VS installation warning during check_reqs
-* [CB-12636](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12636) Fix check_reqs to properly find VS 2017
+* [CB-13022](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13022) Correct a VS installation warning during `check_reqs`
+* [CB-12636](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12636) Fix `check_reqs` to properly find VS 2017
* [CB-12895](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12895) setup eslint and removed jshint
* Allow build when using --bundle and multiple architectures. This closes #175
* README: Fix broken Markdown headings
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