Shazron wrote: >See: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/phonegap/II0qo-dSFWs/Fj8jkemGSbUJ
While I haven't written it, I've contemplated the metadata required for an update check that could tell you when a given api breaks. > because the API for device.platform changed and returned "ios" instead >of "iPhone"/"iPad", In principle, this would have been flagged to discourage updating the plugin, and in theory a solver could have identified the last version from before this break. > Cordova/Phonegap docs where no help, because the version 3.4.0 version >of the docs has broken links for all the plugins api docs. This is a release process issue. We shouldn't have allowed the release to happen w/ this broken. At least one of Edge or release-version should always work. > I then installed the "status bar" plugin for the ios 7 status bar. This >plugin didn't work either. I always get an error in the XCode console >that one or the other plugin does not exist or isn't cdv plugin... I think this was the Xcode 5.1 bug, which I think we should have (process) released the fix for sooner.