Never knew of its existence, but if it wasn't doc'ed then removal is no problem imo. Not sure if this is related: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2717
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: > I am wondering what use cases does having a `preserve-dirs` attribute on > <source-file> and <header-file> objects help with? I notice that this > attribute is ONLY parsed in the iOS plugman handler, and it is not > documented as part of the plugin.xml spec. > > Additionally it seems like plugins in the wild using the plugin spec (I > combed through the ones being authored by phonegap build [1], the Mozilla > Person one [2], Shaz's keychain plugin [3] and his test flight plugin [4]) > don't use this attribute and instead use the > target-dir="target/location/inside/cordova/projects" to specify where > certain source files should go. > > Can I safely remove this functionality? > > [1] https://github.com/phonegap-build > [2] > https://github.com/couchbaselabs/cordova-browserid/blob/master/plugin.xml > [3] https://github.com/shazron/KeychainPlugin/blob/master/plugin.xml > [4] https://github.com/shazron/TestFlightPlugin/blob/master/plugin.xml > >