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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > > >
