Author: steven
Date: Fri Feb 23 18:19:02 2018
New Revision: 1825155
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1825155&view=rev
Log:
Updated docs
Modified:
cordova/site/public/announcements/2018/02/23/cordova-windows-6.0.0.html
cordova/site/public/blog/index.html
cordova/site/public/feed.xml
Modified:
cordova/site/public/announcements/2018/02/23/cordova-windows-6.0.0.html
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cordova/site/public/announcements/2018/02/23/cordova-windows-6.0.0.html?rev=1825155&r1=1825154&r2=1825155&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- cordova/site/public/announcements/2018/02/23/cordova-windows-6.0.0.html
(original)
+++ cordova/site/public/announcements/2018/02/23/cordova-windows-6.0.0.html Fri
Feb 23 18:19:02 2018
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1,
maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width" />
- <meta name="description" content="We are happy to announce the release of
cordova-windows 6.0.0. This is a major release, that changes functionality you
might rely on, so please make sure to ...">
+ <meta name="description" content="We are happy to announce the release of
cordova-windows 6.0.0. This is a major release that changes functionality you
might rely on, so please make sure to r...">
<title>
@@ -133,32 +133,29 @@
<div>
<p>We are happy to announce the release of <code>cordova-windows
6.0.0</code>. </p>
-<p>This is a major release, that changes functionality you might rely on, so
please make sure to read the following list of changes:</p>
+<p>This is a major release that changes functionality you might rely on, so
please make sure to read the following list of changes:</p>
<h2>Changes</h2>
<ul>
-<li>Windows 10 / UWP builds are now the default, meaning <code>cordova build
windows</code> will now build a Windows 10 UWP app by default.
+<li><strong>Windows 10 / UWP</strong> builds are now default, meaning
<code>cordova build windows</code> will now build a Windows 10 UWP app by
default. Windows (Phone) 8.1 is still supported of course, just use
<code>cordova build windows -- --appx=8.1-win</code>, <code>cordova build
windows -- --appx=8.1-phone</code> or an equivalent configuration option.</li>
+<li>You can now build apps with a current installation of <strong>Visual
Studio 2017</strong> (<code>15.5.x</code> at the time of writing) without any
additional configuration or hacks (like the environment variable
<code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> that was required for 5.0.0).
<ul>
-<li>Windows 8.1 is still there, just use <code>cordova build windows --
--appx=8.1-win</code>, <code>cordova build windows -- --appx=8.1-phone</code>
or an equivalent configuration option.</li>
+<li>Note: <a
href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs2017-compatibility-vs#windows-store-and-windows-phone-apps";>Visual
Studio 2017 doesn't support Windows 8.1 apps any more</a>, so you can only
build these apps with Visual Studio 2015 installed.</li>
</ul></li>
-<li>A current installation of Visual Studio 2017 (<code>15.5.x</code> at the
time of writing) can be used to build apps without any additional need
configuration or hacks (like the ENV var <code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> that was
required for 5.0.0).
+<li>New <strong>ENV variable <code>MSBUILDDIR</code></strong> allows to
directly configure the MSBuild Tools to be used to build the app. While
<code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> always has been a hack that accidentally also worked
to switch between different MSBuildTools versions, we now we this functionality
explicit: Just set the ENV var to a your desired MSBuild folder (e.g.
<code>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin</code> or <code>C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\</code>) and it will be used to build your project.
<ul>
-<li>Note: <a
href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs2017-compatibility-vs#windows-store-and-windows-phone-apps";>VS2017
doesn't support Windows 8.1 apps any more</a>, so you can only build these
apps with VS15 installed.</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>New ENV variable <code>MSBUILDDIR</code> to directly configure the MSBuild
Tools to be used to build the app. <code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> always has been a
hack that accidentally also worked to switch between different MSBuildTools
versions. Now we made this explicit. Just set the ENV var to a your desired
MSBuild folder (e.g. <code>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin</code> or <code>C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\</code>) and it will be used to build your project.
-
-<ul>
-<li>If you have VS17 and VS15 installed, the normal logic would choose MSBuild
15 - and fail on Win 8.1 project. If you set it to MSBuild 14, it can
successfully build your 8.1 apps. (If the supplied path is invalid or
doesn't contain a working MSBuild, the normal MSBuild selection logic will
be triggered)</li>
+<li>If you have Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2015 installed at the
same time, the normal logic would always choose Visual Studio 2017's
MSBuild 15 - and fail on a Windows (Phone) 8.1 project. If you set the
environment variable MSBuild 14, it can successfully build your 8.1 apps.</li>
+<li>If the supplied path is invalid or doesn't contain a working MSBuild,
the normal MSBuild selection logic will be triggered</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Fixes several bugs</li>
</ul>
<h2>Installation</h2>
-<p>As usual this new version will be added as the default
<code>cordova-windows</code> version only with the next release of Cordova CLI.
Until then, please use these command to remove and readd the
<code>windows</code> platform:</p>
+<p>As usual this new version will be added as the default
<code>cordova-windows</code> version only with the next release of Cordova CLI.
Until then, please use these commands to remove and re-add the
<code>windows</code> platform:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-" data-lang="">cordova
platform rm windows
cordova platform add windows@6.0.0
</code></pre></div>
@@ -169,7 +166,7 @@ cordova platform add windows@6.0.0
<ul>
<li>If you only have Visual Studio 2017 installed on your machine, you can not
build Windows (Phone) 8.1 apps.</li>
<li>"Windows 10 Phone emulator is currently not supported. If you want to
deploy to emulator, use Visual Studio instead."</li>
-<li><a href="https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows/issues/266";>Some
<code>build</code> error messages are a bit misleading</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows/issues/266";>Some
<code>build</code></a> and <a
href="https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows/issues/267";>requirements error
messages</a> are a bit misleading</li>
</ul>
<h2>Feedback</h2>
@@ -180,9 +177,12 @@ cordova platform add windows@6.0.0
<p>Working on this update showed how much code is there to support other
platform variants beside Windows 10 desktop.</p>
+<p>TODO refine </p>
+
<ul>
<li>Is Windows 8.1 support still needed or would it make sense to get rid of
<em>really</em> much code and do a 7.0.0 release that drops support for
that?</li>
<li>Windows 10 Phone? Still relevant?</li>
+<li>Where should the project move? What is missing? What should be supported?
What do you need?</li>
</ul>
<p>Please help us decide how to further develop <code>cordova-windows</code>
by answering these questions below in the comments. Thanks!</p>
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ cordova platform add windows@6.0.0
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13799";>CB-13799</a>
updated npm test for <code>cordova-windows</code></li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13812";>CB-13812</a> run
tests on AppVeyor with VS 2017 as well</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13641";>CB-13641</a>
support transparent splash screen background color. (#245)</li>
-<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13175";>CB-13175</a>
fixing <strong>Windows</strong>8.1 crash on startup</li>
+<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13175";>CB-13175</a>
fixing Windows8.1 crash on startup</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13422";>CB-13422</a>
(windows) Fix typo in build error message</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12895";>CB-12895</a>
ignoring cordova.js for eslint & removing comments and references to
jshint</li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13237";>CB-13237</a>
Default to UAP</li>
Modified: cordova/site/public/blog/index.html
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cordova/site/public/blog/index.html?rev=1825155&r1=1825154&r2=1825155&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- cordova/site/public/blog/index.html (original)
+++ cordova/site/public/blog/index.html Fri Feb 23 18:19:02 2018
@@ -142,32 +142,29 @@
<section class="post-excerpt">
<p><p>We are happy to announce the release of
<code>cordova-windows 6.0.0</code>. </p>
-<p>This is a major release, that changes functionality you might rely on, so
please make sure to read the following list of changes:</p>
+<p>This is a major release that changes functionality you might rely on, so
please make sure to read the following list of changes:</p>
<h2>Changes</h2>
<ul>
-<li>Windows 10 / UWP builds are now the default, meaning <code>cordova build
windows</code> will now build a Windows 10 UWP app by default.
+<li><strong>Windows 10 / UWP</strong> builds are now default, meaning
<code>cordova build windows</code> will now build a Windows 10 UWP app by
default. Windows (Phone) 8.1 is still supported of course, just use
<code>cordova build windows -- --appx=8.1-win</code>, <code>cordova build
windows -- --appx=8.1-phone</code> or an equivalent configuration option.</li>
+<li>You can now build apps with a current installation of <strong>Visual
Studio 2017</strong> (<code>15.5.x</code> at the time of writing) without any
additional configuration or hacks (like the environment variable
<code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> that was required for 5.0.0).
<ul>
-<li>Windows 8.1 is still there, just use <code>cordova build windows --
--appx=8.1-win</code>, <code>cordova build windows -- --appx=8.1-phone</code>
or an equivalent configuration option.</li>
+<li>Note: <a
href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs2017-compatibility-vs#windows-store-and-windows-phone-apps";>Visual
Studio 2017 doesn't support Windows 8.1 apps any more</a>, so you can only
build these apps with Visual Studio 2015 installed.</li>
</ul></li>
-<li>A current installation of Visual Studio 2017 (<code>15.5.x</code> at the
time of writing) can be used to build apps without any additional need
configuration or hacks (like the ENV var <code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> that was
required for 5.0.0).
+<li>New <strong>ENV variable <code>MSBUILDDIR</code></strong> allows to
directly configure the MSBuild Tools to be used to build the app. While
<code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> always has been a hack that accidentally also worked
to switch between different MSBuildTools versions, we now we this functionality
explicit: Just set the ENV var to a your desired MSBuild folder (e.g.
<code>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin</code> or <code>C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\</code>) and it will be used to build your project.
<ul>
-<li>Note: <a
href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs2017-compatibility-vs#windows-store-and-windows-phone-apps";>VS2017
doesn't support Windows 8.1 apps any more</a>, so you can only build these
apps with VS15 installed.</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>New ENV variable <code>MSBUILDDIR</code> to directly configure the MSBuild
Tools to be used to build the app. <code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> always has been a
hack that accidentally also worked to switch between different MSBuildTools
versions. Now we made this explicit. Just set the ENV var to a your desired
MSBuild folder (e.g. <code>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin</code> or <code>C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\</code>) and it will be used to build your project.
-
-<ul>
-<li>If you have VS17 and VS15 installed, the normal logic would choose MSBuild
15 - and fail on Win 8.1 project. If you set it to MSBuild 14, it can
successfully build your 8.1 apps. (If the supplied path is invalid or
doesn't contain a working MSBuild, the normal MSBuild selection logic will
be triggered)</li>
+<li>If you have Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2015 installed at the
same time, the normal logic would always choose Visual Studio 2017's
MSBuild 15 - and fail on a Windows (Phone) 8.1 project. If you set the
environment variable MSBuild 14, it can successfully build your 8.1 apps.</li>
+<li>If the supplied path is invalid or doesn't contain a working MSBuild,
the normal MSBuild selection logic will be triggered</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Fixes several bugs</li>
</ul>
<h2>Installation</h2>
-<p>As usual this new version will be added as the default
<code>cordova-windows</code> version only with the next release of Cordova CLI.
Until then, please use these command to remove and readd the
<code>windows</code> platform:</p>
+<p>As usual this new version will be added as the default
<code>cordova-windows</code> version only with the next release of Cordova CLI.
Until then, please use these commands to remove and re-add the
<code>windows</code> platform:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-" data-lang="">cordova
platform rm windows
cordova platform add windows@6.0.0
</code></pre></div>
@@ -178,7 +175,7 @@ cordova platform add windows@6.0.0
<ul>
<li>If you only have Visual Studio 2017 installed on your machine, you can not
build Windows (Phone) 8.1 apps.</li>
<li>"Windows 10 Phone emulator is currently not supported. If you want to
deploy to emulator, use Visual Studio instead."</li>
-<li><a href="https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows/issues/266";>Some
<code>build</code> error messages are a bit misleading</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows/issues/266";>Some
<code>build</code></a> and <a
href="https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows/issues/267";>requirements error
messages</a> are a bit misleading</li>
</ul>
<h2>Feedback</h2>
@@ -189,9 +186,12 @@ cordova platform add windows@6.0.0
<p>Working on this update showed how much code is there to support other
platform variants beside Windows 10 desktop.</p>
+<p>TODO refine </p>
+
<ul>
<li>Is Windows 8.1 support still needed or would it make sense to get rid of
<em>really</em> much code and do a 7.0.0 release that drops support for
that?</li>
<li>Windows 10 Phone? Still relevant?</li>
+<li>Where should the project move? What is missing? What should be supported?
What do you need?</li>
</ul>
<p>Please help us decide how to further develop <code>cordova-windows</code>
by answering these questions below in the comments. Thanks!</p>
Modified: cordova/site/public/feed.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cordova/site/public/feed.xml?rev=1825155&r1=1825154&r2=1825155&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- cordova/site/public/feed.xml (original)
+++ cordova/site/public/feed.xml Fri Feb 23 18:19:02 2018
@@ -6,40 +6,37 @@
</description>
<link>https://cordova.apache.org/</link>
<atom:link href="https://cordova.apache.org/feed.xml"; rel="self"
type="application/rss+xml"/>
- <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
- <lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:46:08 +0000</lastBuildDate>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
+ <lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:53:16 +0000</lastBuildDate>
<generator>Jekyll v2.5.3</generator>
<item>
<title>Cordova Windows 6.0.0 Released!</title>
<description><p>We are happy to announce the release of
<code>cordova-windows 6.0.0</code>. </p>
-<p>This is a major release, that changes functionality you might rely
on, so please make sure to read the following list of changes:</p>
+<p>This is a major release that changes functionality you might rely on,
so please make sure to read the following list of changes:</p>
<h2>Changes</h2>
<ul>
-<li>Windows 10 / UWP builds are now the default, meaning
<code>cordova build windows</code> will now build a Windows 10 UWP
app by default.
+<li><strong>Windows 10 / UWP</strong> builds are now
default, meaning <code>cordova build windows</code> will now build
a Windows 10 UWP app by default. Windows (Phone) 8.1 is still supported of
course, just use <code>cordova build windows --
--appx=8.1-win</code>, <code>cordova build windows --
--appx=8.1-phone</code> or an equivalent configuration option.</li>
+<li>You can now build apps with a current installation of
<strong>Visual Studio 2017</strong>
(<code>15.5.x</code> at the time of writing) without any additional
configuration or hacks (like the environment variable
<code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> that was required for 5.0.0).
<ul>
-<li>Windows 8.1 is still there, just use <code>cordova build
windows -- --appx=8.1-win</code>, <code>cordova build windows --
--appx=8.1-phone</code> or an equivalent configuration option.</li>
+<li>Note: <a
href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs2017-compatibility-vs#windows-store-and-windows-phone-apps">Visual
Studio 2017 doesn&#39;t support Windows 8.1 apps any more</a>, so
you can only build these apps with Visual Studio 2015 installed.</li>
</ul></li>
-<li>A current installation of Visual Studio 2017
(<code>15.5.x</code> at the time of writing) can be used to build
apps without any additional need configuration or hacks (like the ENV var
<code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> that was required for 5.0.0).
+<li>New <strong>ENV variable
<code>MSBUILDDIR</code></strong> allows to directly configure
the MSBuild Tools to be used to build the app. While
<code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> always has been a hack that accidentally
also worked to switch between different MSBuildTools versions, we now we this
functionality explicit: Just set the ENV var to a your desired MSBuild folder
(e.g. <code>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin</code> or <code>C:\Program
Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\</code>) and it will be used to build your
project.
<ul>
-<li>Note: <a
href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs2017-compatibility-vs#windows-store-and-windows-phone-apps">VS2017
doesn&#39;t support Windows 8.1 apps any more</a>, so you can only
build these apps with VS15 installed.</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>New ENV variable <code>MSBUILDDIR</code> to directly
configure the MSBuild Tools to be used to build the app.
<code>VSINSTALLDIR</code> always has been a hack that accidentally
also worked to switch between different MSBuildTools versions. Now we made this
explicit. Just set the ENV var to a your desired MSBuild folder (e.g.
<code>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin</code> or <code>C:\Program
Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\</code>) and it will be used to build your
project.
-
-<ul>
-<li>If you have VS17 and VS15 installed, the normal logic would choose
MSBuild 15 - and fail on Win 8.1 project. If you set it to MSBuild 14, it can
successfully build your 8.1 apps. (If the supplied path is invalid or
doesn&#39;t contain a working MSBuild, the normal MSBuild selection logic
will be triggered)</li>
+<li>If you have Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2015 installed at
the same time, the normal logic would always choose Visual Studio
2017&#39;s MSBuild 15 - and fail on a Windows (Phone) 8.1 project. If you
set the environment variable MSBuild 14, it can successfully build your 8.1
apps.</li>
+<li>If the supplied path is invalid or doesn&#39;t contain a working
MSBuild, the normal MSBuild selection logic will be triggered</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Fixes several bugs</li>
</ul>
<h2>Installation</h2>
-<p>As usual this new version will be added as the default
<code>cordova-windows</code> version only with the next release of
Cordova CLI. Until then, please use these command to remove and readd the
<code>windows</code> platform:</p>
+<p>As usual this new version will be added as the default
<code>cordova-windows</code> version only with the next release of
Cordova CLI. Until then, please use these commands to remove and re-add the
<code>windows</code> platform:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><code
class="language-" data-lang="">cordova platform rm
windows
cordova platform add windows@6.0.0
</code></pre></div>
@@ -50,7 +47,7 @@ cordova platform add windows@6.0.0
<ul>
<li>If you only have Visual Studio 2017 installed on your machine, you
can not build Windows (Phone) 8.1 apps.</li>
<li>&quot;Windows 10 Phone emulator is currently not supported. If
you want to deploy to emulator, use Visual Studio instead.&quot;</li>
-<li><a
href="https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows/issues/266">Some
<code>build</code> error messages are a bit
misleading</a></li>
+<li><a
href="https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows/issues/266">Some
<code>build</code></a> and <a
href="https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows/issues/267">requirements
error messages</a> are a bit misleading</li>
</ul>
<h2>Feedback</h2>
@@ -61,9 +58,12 @@ cordova platform add windows@6.0.0
<p>Working on this update showed how much code is there to support other
platform variants beside Windows 10 desktop.</p>
+<p>TODO refine </p>
+
<ul>
<li>Is Windows 8.1 support still needed or would it make sense to get
rid of <em>really</em> much code and do a 7.0.0 release that drops
support for that?</li>
<li>Windows 10 Phone? Still relevant?</li>
+<li>Where should the project move? What is missing? What should be
supported? What do you need?</li>
</ul>
<p>Please help us decide how to further develop
<code>cordova-windows</code> by answering these questions below in
the comments. Thanks!</p>
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ cordova platform add windows@6.0.0
<li><a
href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13799">CB-13799</a>
updated npm test for <code>cordova-windows</code></li>
<li><a
href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13812">CB-13812</a>
run tests on AppVeyor with VS 2017 as well</li>
<li><a
href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13641">CB-13641</a>
support transparent splash screen background color. (#245)</li>
-<li><a
href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13175">CB-13175</a>
fixing <strong>Windows</strong>8.1 crash on startup</li>
+<li><a
href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13175">CB-13175</a>
fixing Windows8.1 crash on startup</li>
<li><a
href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13422">CB-13422</a>
(windows) Fix typo in build error message</li>
<li><a
href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12895">CB-12895</a>
ignoring cordova.js for eslint &amp; removing comments and references to
jshint</li>
<li><a
href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13237">CB-13237</a>
Default to UAP</li>
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