I think I have the ARC conversion completed. I can pass all mobile-spec automated tests on my iPhone 4S and iPad 2 - both running 5.1.1. The mobile-spec manual tests work, also. I've also done some testing with my own files. There is still some cleanup needed as I commented many things rather than removing them so people could at least get some idea of the changes. Any property that was marked as retain is now strong. I generally left the default for local vars as strong. This is because since we are still supporting 4.2 we can't use the weak keyword and must use __unsafe__unretained which looks pretty scary in the code (although maybe it is a good idea to be reminded of those pointers that will not get set to nil and may dangle).
I didn't issue a pull request yet but would appreciate it if anyone has time to give it a look through. We may want to wait a few more days before merging but if we want to get this in for 2.1 we should probably do it by next week. Also, I should probably update a few plugins to ARC as well - any suggestions for which ones? Also, there are two commits in my branch as I forgot to do a --force on one of my updates. I guess I can fix that with git rebase --i but it isn't one of my favorite commands if there are other methods to squash those together. The CDVUIViewController, CDVLocalStorage and CDVFileTransfer had lots of changes during the last month that I had to merge so if any additional testing of those would be appreciated. I don't have very thorough test files for storage and file transfer. Contacts has the most changes since it has to bridge to the core foundation classes. I did fairly thorough testing of contacts but it is such a large api it is hard to test everything. I didn't attempt to transition JSONKit.* to ARC, it has the -fno-objc-arc complier flag set. I modified the app project settings for ARC in addition to the CordovaLib settings. thanks, -becky
