Copying from the JIRA issue to this thread: I think supporting both was one of the things that upset users when Android > made the switch (at least, it upset me). What happened was that I ended up > having both files present, and the code was silently using one and not the > other, and I couldn't figure out why my whitelist changes were not being > picked up.
> > I think a conversion script was also suggested. I think it would be best > to just fail loudly if config.xml is missing with a message saying "run > this script: cordova/bin/plist2xml.py path/to/cordova.plist On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Braden Shepherdson <bra...@chromium.org>wrote: > Oh, sweet. I'm glad I went to lunch instead of working on it further :P > > Braden > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Anis KADRI <anis.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've already started working on pluginstall…which btw is now called > > plugman<http://github.com/imhotep/plugman>as it has diverged > > significantly from the original tool. I am expecting to > > commit the code sometime today. > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Braden Shepherdson <bra...@chromium.org > > >wrote: > > > > > The code I checked in, which is now tagged, is expecting config.xml > only. > > > It wouldn't be terribly hard to support plists too, but I agree that a > > > clean change is less confusing. > > > > > > I think a conversion script is overkill, it only takes about three to > > > convert one to the other (30 seconds if you vim macros like a boss) and > > > plenty of people will be able to grab the example config.xml and tweak > > one > > > or two settings rather than converting their whole thing. > > > > > > The current state of error messages is less than ideal. Currently if > you > > > try to build but have no config.xml, you just get an Xcode error > message > > > about the missing file :( I'm not sure how we can improve that. Our > users > > > are used to looking at our release notes, featuring this prominently > and > > > pointing to a guide to converting should sort things out. > > > > > > I'm working on getting pluginstall to handle it properly. Are there > more > > > docs that need updating? > > > > > > Braden > > > > > >
