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Andrew Grieve commented on CB-4036: ----------------------------------- Android has the same issue. There's required SDK version vs. required OS version, and probably both are important. Maybe let's add two attributes? min-sdk-version="" min-os-version="". I don't know that we need to support then engine syntax (e.g. "<1.8.1"). Probably just accepting a min-version would be easier (esp. for os-version). Agree it would be great if this was more than just informational. Maybe we could add min-os-version to an app's config.xml? The SDK version can be checked upon prepare and warnings emitted. > <platform> tag should have a "version" attribute > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CB-4036 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4036 > Project: Apache Cordova > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Shazron Abdullah > > This might be hole that we didn't consider. > I know implicitly if the plugin supported an "engine" version we support what > the engine supports, but here could be one scenario. > For example, with iOS 7, a plugin CDVFooBar use this awesome NSWhizBang > framework. Fine, with iOS 7, you have to of course build with the iOS 7 SDK, > and you can support iOS 6 with a Deploy Target build setting. > It runs on iOS 7 - yay. > It.. blows up on iOS 6 at runtime, because of course NSWhizBang framework > does not exist on iOS 6. > Now you say, why don't you do Obj-C runtime checks and weak link the > framework? Yes, the plugin author can do that but a plugin user, by parsing > the plugin xml (using a tool, or optically, whatever) cannot know that the > plugin does NOT work on iOS 6 - and even though it "runs" on iOS 6, it does > nothing, which is useless and wastes a lot of time. > So - my proposal is, to add a *"version"* attribute on the *<platform>* tag. > It should follow the syntax for the <engine> version attribute. > What would be the default if the version attribute is not there? Not sure > what a reasonable default is yet. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira