Looking at our core plugins, several of them would break if we renamed this
file. For that reason, I think keep it as-is for now.

Here's my grep:

http://pastebin.com/dqvyiMLS

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Josh Soref <jso...@blackberry.com> wrote:

> I'm not an Android developer, but I recently ‎saw how the
> getPluginManager() -> pluginManager change can be handled. I also know that
> it's possible to build wrappers for interface changes.
>
> I wouldn't be opposed to this change.
>
> I'd probably ask for sample transition code so that people who want to
> support both can copy and paste to get there.
>
> (There should be copy and paste code for the Plug-in Manager, I'm not sure
> if there is...)
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>   Original Message
> From: Joe Bowser
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:26 PM
> To: dev
> Reply To: dev@cordova.apache.org
> Subject: Renaming CordovaWebView CordovaWebInterface
>
> So, this was something that was brought up numerous times, but I think we
> should probably discuss this at least one more time before we move to
> finish off 4.0.x.
>
> Given that we're breaking the API for CordovaWebView already, would it make
> sense for us to call it a CordovaWebInterface instead? The class has been
> changed to an interface, and this would changing it in the Plugin API, but
> it would make it more clear what we intend to do with this method in the
> future.
>
> What do people think? Should we rename this, or keep it the way it is so
> that we keep most of the plugins, including third party plugins working
> with 4.0.x, and then do the breakage in 5.0.x.
>
> Note: I want the timeframe between 4.0.x and 5.0.x to be a lot shorter.
> There's a lot of iterations that people want to do on this, and we should
> release major releases a little more often than once a year for Android,
> but that's for another thread.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Joe
>
>

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