We currently document support for <plugins-plist> in our spec [1]. This is to support old cordova-ios (2.2 I believe).
It would save with some lame special-case code [2] [3] [4]. Warn folks using plugman w/ plugins using <plugins-plist> elements that support is being removed soon? 3 releases for deprecation ya, so around 3.3 we remove support for it? [1] https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugman/blob/master/plugin_spec.md#plugin s-plist [2] https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugman/blob/master/src/util/config-chang es.js#L93-L104 [3] https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugman/blob/master/src/util/config-chang es.js#L147-L166 [4] https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugman/blob/master/src/util/config-chang es.js#L236-L252