Actually Cordova core has been ARC for a couple of releases now. Good idea for the plugin tool default to non-ARC, this should be covered in the spec...
On Friday, January 11, 2013, Kerri Shotts wrote: > My two cents: > > If it's feasible to support ARC, I'd go for it. Having worked with ARC and > non-ARC code, ARC is definitely easier on my brain cells -- I'm far too > likely to leak memory like a sieve with manual memory management… > > That said, converting Cordova's base code from non-ARC to ARC may not be > trivial. In theory, you can just get rid of autoreleases, retains, > deallocs, and handle properties (assign/retain/copy --> weak,strong), but > sometimes you end up getting into toll-free bridging between Cocoa and Core > Foundation, and occasionally you run into more obscure problems (such as > ARC releasing the object before the code expected it. Easy to fix, but not > always /obvious/ prior to experiencing the issue.) > > Once we have ARC support, though, the -fno-objc-arc compiler flag is a > per-file setting, so I would think that the plugin tools could set that > flag based on whether or not the plugin supported ARC or not. (I would > think this should be determined in the metadata somewhere? Perhaps > defaulting to no-ARC if there's no metadata saying one way or the other?) > > > On Jan 11, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Andrew Grieve > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > This caught me off-guard as well, and I filed an issue to fix it up: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2180 > > > > I don't think it'll be entirely straight-forward though, because some > > plugins still do not support ARC. > > > > What are everyone's thoughts on how to address this? One option is to > have > > the default project template already set-up with two lib targets. One for > > ARC and one without ARC. Another option is to instruct users how to set > the > > compile flag to disable arc on a per-file basis. > > > > Do we want to support ARC and non-ARC plugins in plugman? > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Jacob Weber > > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > >> When I create a new iOS project with Cordova 2.3, Automatic Reference > >> Counting (CLANG_ENABLE_OBJC_ARC) is turned off. And the code (e.g. > >> AppDelegate.m) uses autorelease, which I'm pretty sure is incompatible > with > >> ARC. > >> > >> Is this correct? Based on this blog post, I thought it should be on: > >> > >> > http://shazronatadobe.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/automatic-reference-counting-arc-and-cordova-plugins/ > >> > >> Jacob > >
