Another motivation is to actually use it ourselves and bring light to this feature which is underused. Inevitably there will be iOS 7 only plugins. Eventually we will support only iOS 7 and 8 only, etc
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's also informational - so it has some value for plain human eyes > (browsing the registry for example) vs automatons > > On Wednesday, April 30, 2014, Michal Mocny > <mmo...@chromium.org<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mmo...@chromium.org');>> > wrote: > >> Why do we need to do that? >> >> If the cordova-ios template support iOS 6+, don't we only need to update >> the cordova engine requirements? If you are using an older cordova-ios >> platform (that still supported iOS5), then would you be using a CLI that >> understood apple-ios engine tag? >> >> -Michal >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I agree of course, now comes the part where we add the "apple-ios" key >> into >> > the engines tag for all plugins. We can add 6.0 for everything or >> actually >> > test whether it actually needs 6.0 (more work, requires testing with an >> > older Cordova version, and Xcode version that has the iOS 5 SDK....) >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> >> wrote: >> > >> > > https://developer.apple.com/support/appstore/ >> > > >> > > iOS <6 = 2%. That meets the criteria we've used in the past.. >> > > >> > > >> > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > > With 3.4.0, the default template only supports iOS 6.0 and up. I >> know >> > > that >> > > > plugins can specify iOS support (apple-ios key in engines tag) but >> we >> > > > haven't done it yet. I'm not even sure if the cli plugin installer >> > checks >> > > > for this yet. >> > > > >> > > > Should we start using this in core plugins? >> > > > >> > > > A specific case is this PR: >> > > > https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/pull/24 >> > > > It is using [ALAssetsLibrary authorizationStatus] and that API only >> > > occurs >> > > > in iOS 6.0 and up. >> > > > >> > > > Wrapping this in a runtime os version check is not hard, however >> > > > (IsAtLeastVersion macro). >> > > > >> > > >> > >> >
