Of course it should be considered. We did discuss this briefly, but I don't think we added it as a feature request in time for 3.0.0. What I did recommend however, is for plugins to use the __has_feature(objc_arc) macro to support both ARC and non-ARC. This way, including it in any kind of project setting it would work - without adding this flag. Pre-3.0.0, ARC is _not_ enabled by default in the project template (for plugin compatibility reasons), but in 3.0.0 we are enabling it in the default template: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2180
More info here: http://shazronatadobe.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/automatic-reference-counting-arc-and-cordova-plugins/ For pre-compiled binaries it's no problem (say the TestFlightSDK ships with libTestFlight.a), and for small plugins to convert to use the macro, but I can see it being a problem if we had to include the Facebook SDK with its gajillion files that may or may not be ARC (since converting them may be a maintenance nightmare for newer versions). For that last scenario, I would recommend having that new compiler flags attribute. On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:37 AM, aaron barnes <aa...@stasis.org> wrote: > I've really been enjoying the cordova cli/plugin.xml definition. > > I've been porting a bunch of old plugins to work with plugman's plugin.xml > definition. Generally it's been going well, however one problem I've come > across a few times particularly when trying to apply it to old code or > adapting 3rd party code is that the code isn't ARC compliant. The > preference would obviously be to make the code arc-compliant, but not being > a pro in objective c, it's often easier to just add '-fno-objc-arc' as a > compiler flag for the file in xcode. > > It would be great to add as an option for iOS builders, I'm thinking > something like: > > <source-file src="src/ios/LegacyCode.m" compilerFlags="-fno-objc-arc"/**> > > in plugin.xml > > which would then insert something like : > > 93803FD21768C79200CB4E50 /* LegacyCode.m in Sources */ = {isa = > PBXBuildFile; fileRef = 93803FCF1768C79200CB4E50 /* LegacyCode.m */; > settings = {COMPILER_FLAGS = "-fno-objc-arc"; }; } > > into the project.pbxproj. > > would anybody else find this useful as a feature-request? can it be > considered? > > --aaron > > >
