Hi everyone, When PhoneGap - ahem, Callback - releases a new version how do you upgrade your existing projects? On Android, we find that most of the time we just need to drop in the jar/js. On iOS, though, it's a lot more complicated; the docs suggest you are to rebuild your entire project which is really painful and we'd like to avoid it if possible.
However, occasionally some releases have necessitated an upgrade (sometime in the early 0.x releases the iOS went from embedded in the project to a system lib; Xcode4 junk, etc.) but it's very difficult to tell sometimes by reading the commit logs how to know if you have to rebuild a given project. I'd propose only Major revision bumps trigger a rebuild (a riff off of http://semver.org/) but that may not be possible; versioning these different projects are hard, I agree, especially since a bump may only require *some* projects to be rebuilt and not others (Android tools new release, for example, requires a change in droidgap default project). Is something a bit better documented possible/doable? It's just really frustrating to not know if we need to rebuild all of our projects or not, and it makes it really difficult to test if we are slogging through full build regression suites every time we bump a minor version of PhoneGap because it may have changed something in iPad 4.3 project files etc.We can look at the diff in github, but that seems suboptimal as it's not entirely obvious if anything changed that requires a rebuild or just some tweaking. We have good JS app test coverage but once PhoneGap & individual project build files get in the mix the automated scripts are much harder to have tightened up, unfortunately. I dunno. Any advice/thoughts/guidance? Is there something we're missing? Thanks, -- Matt Rogish
