Joe or myself don't currently have the time to fix this problem and probably won't for the foreseeable future. Plugin maintainers can send PRs to cordova-android adding their mapping if they want or update their plugins.
But I'd like to get this release out because of the bug fixes that have landed and because the release train should keep rolling. A future release can happen with those fixes once PRs come in On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:54 PM, julio cesar sanchez < > jcesarmob...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Yeah, but our plugins work because we have put some code to copy our > files > > to a new location instead of updating the paths in the plugins' > plugin.xml. > > This is handled for what our plugins need, but not for all the possible > > cases, so I don't think it's ok to make a patch to just make our plugins > > work but don't do the same for other allowed files. If we didn't update > the > > core plugins for the new path we shouldn't ask users to do it in their > > plugins. > > > > > Fair, we should really be updating all our plugins and figuring out how to > remove the patch. The last thing I want to see is this code growing like > a cancer, which it very well could. I don't think we should be delaying > the release because of third party plugins not being able to be installed. > > > > Also there is the problem I told you about the false positive making it > > think it's an Eclipse project and making our plugins fail to install if > > they are installed after a plugin with the previos problem. > > > > > Yeah, that's a pretty major failure that we never saw when we were testing > 7.0. I don't think this should delay the release either unless a PR > arrives that fixes this. > > > > > > > 2018-04-17 23:30 GMT+02:00 Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com>: > > > > > I disagree. We have our core plugins installing and uninstalling > without > > > issue currently, and we can't babysit everyone with their third party > > > plugins. The community needs to come up with a plan on deprecating the > > old > > > project structure and communicating that to the third party plugin > > > maintainers. > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:28 PM, julio cesar sanchez < > > > jcesarmob...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Before doing an Android release we should fix the problems with > plugins > > > > installs, people is not updating because of it > > > > > > > > 2018-04-17 3:31 GMT+02:00 gandhi rajan <gandhiraja...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > > > > > > > Can you please have a look at this PR - > > > > > https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs/pull/811 > > > > > > > > > > It's related to Cordova doc changes. > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, April 17, 2018, Steven Gill stevengil...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Going to aim to do a release this week. Let me know if there are > > any > > > > PRs > > > > > I > > > > > > should look at. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Gandhi > > > > > > > > > > "The best way to find urself is to lose urself in the service of > > others > > > > > !!!" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
