How would the CLI tools use this information? These sorts of dependencies are tricky, and involve: * The minimum version of iOS required to build cordova (depends on when the APIs used were introduced) * The maximum version of iOS supported by cordova (depends on when the APIs used were deprecated) * The corresponding min and max versions for the plugin * The versions of iOS that the developer *can* build for * The version that the developer actually *wants* to build for. * Oh, and also the regular plugin/engine dependencies
Really, the information that we have available is the minimum iOS versions required for cordova-ios and for the plugin. (We don't know the maximum version until long after the code has been released, but it's at least as important) We don't have information (currently) about what versions of iOS the user *can* compile for, nor (maybe more importantly) what version they *want* to compile for. Cordova-ios 3.4.1 *supports* iOS 6 and 7. Applications built with just cordova *require* iOS 6. That doesn't mean that a plugin that supports iOS 5 won't work; it also doesn't mean that a plugin that requires iOS 7 won't work, for a particular app. And who knows about iOS 7.2, or 8? If our tools could support it, this is what I'd *love* to see: * A way to declare in plugins a min and (optional) max iOS version, in plugin.xml * A way to specify the ios target version when creating a project, that would live in config.xml * A CLI that could download the right version of cordova-ios to match that version * A plugman that could find and download the *appropriate* version of a plugin, or complain if one wasn't available. We're quite a long way from that today, but I'd love to get there. Ian On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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). > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >
