I pinged the folks here on VS team to get an idea of number of people building for WP8. Looks like this is still a significant number (more than 10%) and almost 2000 unique users building for WP8 per month. Can we delay the deprecation for 3 more months to see if this number can go down ?
-----Original Message----- From: Jesse [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 11:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [DISCUSS] Deprecate cordova-wp8 We've talked about it for awhile, but never moved on it. cordova-wp8 has been a work horse that seen us through tough times but the sun is setting. cordova-windows has been a viable alternative for some time now, and allows developers to target newer device features from wp8.1 and wp10 as well. Removing the responsibility of implementing changes in this now ancient code base will free many of us to focus on making the windows universal workflow better. I would like to see this wrapped up by the end of the year, which for me is the end of next week. Some suggestions of what needs to happen next : - display warning message in cli when devs type `cordova platform add wp8` ( next cordova-lib/cli release ) - provide a plugin-dev migration guide outlining how to leverage existing C# code in a windows-universal application ( I will do this ) - update repos / documentation with polite wording to move on - close a bunch of wp8 related issues in jira with "won't fix' - put wp8 out to pasture What are your thoughts? Cheers, Jesse @purplecabbage https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=risingj.com&data=01%7c01%7ctoddmosc%40microsoft.com%7c627f22cbc05040478d9808d2fb4bb85c%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=baC3YZLF3cU%2fbC5ZYH7QvBtpyYtxBhJhkQd57sERCC0%3d
