Thanks all. I think I will do short tests with the OSX platform and then do a patch release.
In the announcement post I would mention cordova-ios with Catalys or the Electron platforms as alternatives. On February 2, 2022, Pieter Van Poyer <pietervanpo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I agree to deprecate the OSX platform, and the blog post would be a > good > moment to announce the deprecation. > > However, I have no experience with the Catalyst workflow. But I am > always > sceptical with Mac tools, a lot of times it is too much closed source > IMO. > > But when I think about making a webbased crossplatform native desktop > app, > I would automatically look at Electron. > I have some experience with Electron (not with the electron cordova > platform), and I did like developing the web part of an Electron app. > When working on the installers and native progressbars and stuff like > that > it became more difficult. > We did develop our Electron app for Windows. > > As I said, I have no experience with the Cordova Electron platform, > but *if > it is cross platform and it supports building for OSx, Linux and > Windows*, > I would suggest the *Electron Cordova platform (or Electron plain) > platform > as an alternative*. > > Kind regards > Pieter > > Op di 1 feb. 2022 om 21:05 schreef Chris Brody > <chris.br...@gmail.com>: > > > I think there is an issue with using plug-ins together with Cordova- > osx > > would be happy to further explain or demonstrate if needed. > > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 2:43 PM Niklas Merz <niklasm...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just merged a PR [1] that makes the OSX platform work on M1 > Macs, > > > because some people need it. The platform hasn't seen much > activity but > > > I step up to fix up the version number in master and do a small > patch > > > release if nobody objects. > > > > > > With a release we could make a small userbase happy and use the > > > announcement blog post to ask them to try out Catalyst with > cordova-ios. > > > > > > I remember we had discussions to deprecate the platform as we > focus our > > > resouces on Android and iOS and Catalyst which let's you run iOS > apps on > > > macOS [2]. But I remember no formal decission to deprecate it so > far. > > > Maybe we get some feedback to finally make the decission. > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > Regards > > > Niklas > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/cordova-osx/pull/105 > > > [2] > https://lists.apache.org/thread/lqq2xoy3pjqcyl052gv0qom2f31zgg8k > > > > >
