It's not quite as simple as dropping config.xml. In all cases, config.xml will still need to exist to provide configuration information about the app.
Historically, when installing platforms and plugins with `--save`, they were added to config.xml. When running `cordova prepare`, it would read config.xml and restore any that were listed. Now that we're using npm for all of our fetching, it makes more sense to store those platform/plugin dependencies in package.json. Relevant proposals: https://github.com/apache/cordova-discuss/blob/master/proposals/save-restore.md https://github.com/apache/cordova-discuss/pull/53 Currently, Cordova will attempt to use both package.json and config.xml, and mirror installed plugins to both locations. Unfortunately, handling of the spec value seems to be buggy depending on which location it reads from. It would be great if Cordova 9 could drop the code that mirrors changes to config.xml and use only package.json, but nobody has really started work on that yet. The closest is an unfinished helper class that I was hoping to add to cordova-common to assist with package.json changes: https://github.com/apache/cordova-common/pull/34 I was also kinda hoping that this could all be tackled as part of the `cordova install` proposal, but it probably makes sense to handle it in smaller pieces. On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 9:38 AM Chris Brody <chris.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My understanding is that Cordova 8 is using both config.xml and > package.json. Any plugins and platforms specified in config.xml will be > automatically added in package.json if not already there. My understanding > is that Cordova will drop config.xml in a new release, forget if this was > planned for Cordova 9 or not. > > Can anyone confirm the following: > > Do we plan to drop config.xml support in Cordova 9? If so, any pointers to > where this was discussed and agreed? > > If not, do we plan to drop config.xml support in some other future Cordova > release? Any pointers to the discussion? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
