Just spoke with Steve. He will inform users about this in his release blog post. That's the least we can do.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Jesse <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you should put the date that you deprecate it, not the date that > you expect to remove it ... or the version number that it is deprecated in. > We have no idea what will happen between now and December ... there may be > a reason that we need to remove it sooner. ( although our published > deprecation policy should state that we 'intend' to keep it around for 6 > months, we should NOT guarantee that it will be there for 6 months. ) > > Typically I view deprecation notices as 'Do Not Resuscitate' > if keeping it around becomes more work than letting it go ... then let it > go ... > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yeah, Simon added it earlier, but then I realized that plugins are > > probably already using this method, which is why I added the > > "Deprecated December 2012" message on it. > > > > As far as pre-1.8 versions of PhoneGap, where we provided a context > > (in reality a PhoneGapActivity, which extended Activity, which extends > > Context), I don't know of a good way to deprecate this without making > > CordovaWebView completely unusable. The thing with these methods is > > that we decided to remove these methods before the deprecation policy, > > and I don't want to see them back in there for another six months. > > > > This is total Java Language Fail! > > > > Joe > > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > thx mang, thats a good idea for the moment. > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> BTW: I added it back with this commit: > > >> > > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cordova-android.git;a=commit;h=58298404094c81561cf4e01b7c4397638584961b > > >> > > >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >>> Hey > > >>> > > >>> 1.9 is close to being released, but currently plugins that use > > >>> ctx.getContext() are broken. Since we changed how a CordovaInterface > > >>> works on Android in 1.9, I'm wondering if we should add the > > >>> addContext() method back on the Interface with a deprecation warning > > >>> or just tell plugin authors that if they aren't active on the mailing > > >>> list that their plugins are going to break. Personally, I don't want > > >>> to have more methods on the CordovaInterface, because it makes > > >>> CordovaWebView harder to use, but this will break plugins across the > > >>> board. > > >>> > > >>> Thoughts? > > >>> > > >>> Joe > > > > > > -- > @purplecabbage > risingj.com >
