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
> >
> >
> >
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