Nikhil, sounds reasonable. I originally misunderstood Vlads message. He isn't proposing the PlatformAPI Polyfill for deprecation. This is the code which is used by platforms that haven't released a platform API implementation.
He is suggesting removing code from cordova-lib that supports * cordova-android < 5 * cordova-ios < 4 * cordova-windows < 4.3.0 * cordova-osx < 4 Platforms that haven't implemented PlatformAPI Pollyfill * Browser * BlackBerry * WP8 (In deprecation mode) * WebOS * Ubuntu * Amazon FireOS (In deprecation mode) * OSX (PR PENDING) On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Nikhil Khandelwal <nikhi...@microsoft.com> wrote: > +1 for 6-month deprecation (or even earlier) for platforms where we have > already released a platform with Platform API. Duplicated code can be a > real maintenance problem here. > > For other platforms that we have not released a platform API > implementation and do not plan to e.g. WP8, WebOS, Ubuntu - we should > support them for longer unless the cost is significant. > > -Nikhil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vladimir Kotikov (Akvelon) [mailto:v-vlk...@microsoft.com] > Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 11:36 AM > To: dev@cordova.apache.org > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Old platforms support deprecation > > Agree about 6 months. I suggested next Cordova major version as a deadline > due to two reasons: this definitely will be a breaking change, so we'll > need for major bump anyway; also the Cordova 5.0 lives for about 8 months > (since Apr 2015), so I think Cordova 6 will live for approximately the same > time. > > Regarding the other platforms (WebOS, Ubuntu) - I was thinking about > "soft" deprecation - i.e. drop support only for that platforms where we > have an implementation for PlatformApi (Android, iOS, Windows, probably > OSX), and leave other platforms as-is. But if everybody is ok about total > platform-specific code removal, this might be even better, because then > we'll be able to cut out a great chunk of legacy code and, probably, get > rid of a number of dependencies. > > --------------- > Best regards, Vladimir > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Gill [mailto:stevengil...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 8:39 PM > To: dev@cordova.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Old platforms support deprecation > > I think depreciation should be our usual 6 months instead of cordova 7. > Who knows how fast or slow cordova 7 will come out. > > Doing this, it would mean we would drop support for the platforms that > don't update to PlatformAPI. > > We have already started the process for deprecating amazon-fireos and wp8. > We would need to include FFOS since I don't see anyone working on it at > all. We can contact LG about webos and see if they will update. Ubuntu > might get the update by then. OSX already has a PR for PlatformAPI changes. > > I think this sounds fine. Deprecated platforms would still work with old > versions of cordova. > On Jan 22, 2016 6:58 AM, "Vladimir Kotikov (Akvelon)" < > v-vlk...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > > Hi guys. > > > > Starting from upcoming cordova release (6.0.0) we have PlatformApi > > implemented and used by three major platforms (Android, iOS and Windows). > > This means that we now have a lot of code in cordova-lib which exists > > there only for maintaining compatibility with previous platforms > > versions. I'd love to remove this duplicates from lib, but this means > > that we'll lose the support for previous platforms in newer cli, and > > hence we'd need to deprecate this support first. > > > > So I propose to add a deprecation message about removing support for > > old platforms into upcoming cordova@6.0.0 and remove this support > > totally in next major cordova version (7.0.0). The message will be > > emitted each time when polyfill is instantiated for these platforms > > instead of platform's Api class and might look like this: > > > > "The support for old platforms via PlatformApi polyfill is deprecated > > and will be removed in next versions of cordova. > > Consider upgrading your platform to cordova-android@5.0.0 or newer." > > > > - > > Best regards, Vladimir. > > > > > > >
