I'm indifferent about adding this back. What I do want to comment on is that this seems like a good precursor of the furor that 3.0 is likely to create. Lots of things are going to change, and all of these old plugins are going to be in a questionable state. In principle there's no reason why you can't manually install them in a 3.0-era project, I suppose.
But it's going to be very confusing, and I suspect people are going to be trying to use the CLI tools to install old plugins, and manually installing new plugins. Or just not updating, because it would require more than a small bit of work to migrate their apps. How firm are we going to be when our users cry out for a 2.10, for long-term support for 2.x? It might be to our advantage to promise a couple of bugfix releases on 2.x up front when announcing 3.0. That sets the expectations: you have plenty of warning, and time to make the change, but it's not going to last forever; the decision for when to drop support is already made. We don't want to find ourselves juggling both branches six months from now, let alone a year from now. Braden On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Lucas Holmquist <[email protected]>wrote: > This is sort of a tough one i think, how long has this deprecation notice > been in the code? > > if we change android to work, and then remove it again, will we still > have the same issue with the users. > > > i'm just trying to play devil's advocate here. As a user, it would be nice > to have this come back for a release, but as a developer, i can see the > other hand > > > On Jun 11, 2013, at 2:26 AM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sounds good, as long as we set it to deprecate after 3.0. I can get > > it done tomorrow. > > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Filip Maj <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Might not be a bad idea, I'm sure users would appreciate it. Is it > >> acceptable for us to do an android-only 2.8.1 ? > >> > >> On 6/10/13 10:41 PM, "Steven Gill" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> 2.8.1? > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> This just affects Android. > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Jesse MacFadyen > >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> Can someone post a link to a commit, or a ticket for this? I am > having > >>>>> trouble understanding the scope, as is. > >>>>> Does this just affect Android? > >>>>> > >>>>> Cheers, > >>>>> Jesse > >>>>> > >>>>> Sent from my iPhone5 > >>>>> > >>>>> On Jun 10, 2013, at 8:26 PM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> OK, if we bring it back, how long should we bring it back for? We > >>>>> can't keep it around forever. The only reason that I want to bring > it > >>>>> back is because I feel that it was unfair to the users to have this > >>>>> deprecated without it even being listed on the Deprecation article on > >>>>> our wiki, let alone announced. Unlike something like WebSQL vs > >>>>> WebStorage, where we're forced to make a crap choice, this is > >>>>> something that we have full control over. > >>>>> > >>>>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Tommy-Carlos Williams > >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> The plugin ecosystem is in a bit of an uproar about it :( > >>>>>> > >>>>>> If it's not a massive pain, it could really help. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> On 11/06/2013, at 12:57 PM, Simon MacDonald > >>>> <[email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I think the right thing to do is to put it back in for now. I'm > >>>>>>> answering tons of questions on this and people are begging me to > >>>>>>> update plugins I didn't even write. So the empirical evidence is > the > >>>>>>> users are not ready for this change. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Simon Mac Donald > >>>>>>> http://hi.im/simonmacdonald > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>> Hey > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I know that we have recently deprecated Plugin in favour for > >>>>>>>> CordovaPlugin, but it seems that we really screwed up the > >>>> deprecation > >>>>>>>> and now one of the flagship apps that use PhoneGap no longer has a > >>>>>>>> valid upgrade path. I think that this is a major problem that is > >>>>>>>> biting us in the ass, so I would like to see us put the Plugin > shim > >>>>>>>> back into Cordova. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I know this is a bad thing to add, but we basically gave our users > >>>> the > >>>>>>>> giant middle finger by deprecating this without notifying them at > >>>> all. > >>>>>>>> I'm not sure what we should do in this case. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Joe > >>>>>> > >>>> > >> > >
