I don't know that we want to go as far as deprecating it just yet, but we should definitely do a release that prevents it from being installed with cordova-ios 6 (since it conflicts).
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 10:50 AM Chris Brody <chris.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It would definitely be nice if we don't have to support that plugin any > longer, and I think it would be good to archive it as well. My one comment > is that there should be a very clear guide for people who have to continue > using the same scheme due to data stored by the web view. A couple of > off-topic items that I think are related: > > I think we should recommend that people consider using native plugins such > as cordova-plugin-file, SQLite, or something similar for storing important > data.. I have seen quite a few things such as local storage deleting data, > IndexedDB eviction, and other things going wrong to trust the WebView to > not lose data. > > I think we should deprecate and archive some other plugins in the near > future, due to the support burden, as I proposed in: > https://github.com/apache/cordova/issues/185 > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:28 PM Norman Breau <nor...@normanbreau.com> wrote: > > > Hi team, > > > > I believe previously we decided on a path to deprecate > > cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine, but I wanted > > to make sure that is still our stance. > > > > cordova-ios@6 supports both url schemes and the legacy file scheme, > > effectively making the wkwebview engine plugin redundant. Now that > > cordova-ios@6 is released, I feel like it's time to formally deprecate > > the wkwebview plugin according to our Deprecation Policy[1] > > > > With that being said, I'm not sure if we also want to archive this > > repository. According to the policy, we should archive if: > > > > "A deprecated repository might also be archived if we don't intend to > > provide support of any kind (Issues, Pull Requests, Releases) for this > > component any more." > > > > I feel like this is probably our intention as I think all maintenance > > will now be done in cordova-ios going forward, but I want to gather some > > thoughts on this. > > > > [1] https://cordova.apache.org/deprecation_policy.html > > > > Cheers, > > Norman > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
