Can't we ease in the methods and deprecate in 3.6??? BTW: Is 3.5 out yet? I voted on the thread for the Android platform.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> wrote: > I like the reflection idea since that will let us avoid branching & make > the plugins work with both 3.x and 4.x. Others will hit the same problem, > but likely others will want a way to target both versions as the solution. > > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org> > wrote: > >> This has been bugging me for a bit now. We definitely need a branch for >> development on the plugins. (FTR, there's a pluggable_webview branch on >> file, file-transfer and media-capture already, with this particular fix. We >> can rename that) >> >> We're going to have trouble releasing these plugins when we release >> cordova-android 4.0.0 -- I don't think that the tools right now will >> support having two installable versions of a plugin, distinguished only by >> one of the <platform> version requirements. That's a deficiency that we >> need to fix before 4.0. >> >> Alternately, we use reflection in our core plugins to see whether the >> WebView class has these methods, and support both 3.x and 4.x with the same >> code. That's a pretty ugly solution, though, and doesn't help anyone else >> in the same situation. >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Marcel Kinard <cmarc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > That is my first thought as well. Perhaps name the plugin branch >> something >> > like “android-4.0”? >> > >> > On Jun 5, 2014, at 5:38 PM, Steven Gill <stevengil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > 4.0 branch for the plugins? >> > > >> > > >> > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > >> > >> Hey >> > >> >> > >> So, since we're wanting to introduce new APIs, such as >> > >> getPluginManager() and getPlugin() on the WebView itself, we're going >> > >> to need to update our plugins. I did some work on this today, but I >> > >> need to know where these changes should live, since I don't think they >> > >> belong in master until 4.0.x on Android is released. >> > >> >> > >> So, What should we do with this? Any ideas? >> > >> >> > >> Joe >> > >> >> > >> > >>
