Remember, Plugin Developers are competent enough to write Java code. I'm not talking about the average Cordova User when I say this.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's fine. The fact is that we've beat this horse to death for six > months on this mailing list, in JIRA and on GitHub. If people have an > issue with it now, they should have been more involved. > > Joe > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Anis KADRI <anis.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 >>>
