Yeah, thats true, willingness to support plugins by original devs changes with time. Its just inevitable.
I wonder if the solution here doesn't just end up being the plugin universe? As maintenance is dropped, other willing devs have to take over ownership via forks, and we update the references in the plugin universe. -Michal On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Ian Clelland <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Or worse, there will be the people who can't write Java at all and can't > >> manage to do a find/replace on it. > > > > > > For the record, I think I'm okay with stymieing the developers of native > > Java plugins for Cordova if they *can't write Java at all*. :) > > > > I'm referring to the people who USE the plugins, but can't update > them. Sadly, a lot of the third party plugins are abandonware, and > there's people who depend on these plugins who don't know Java. I > used to believe that plugin developers actually maintained their > plugins, but most of them don't. >
