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Subject: Re: [plugin.xml spec] usefulness of preserve-dirs attribute?
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Never knew of its existence, but if it wasn't doc'ed then removal is no
problem imo.
Not sure if this is related: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2717


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com> wrote:

> I am wondering what use cases does having a `preserve-dirs` attribute on
> <source-file> and <header-file> objects help with? I notice that this
> attribute is ONLY parsed in the iOS plugman handler, and it is not
> documented as part of the plugin.xml spec.
>
> Additionally it seems like plugins in the wild using the plugin spec (I
> combed through the ones being authored by phonegap build [1], the Mozilla
> Person one [2], Shaz's keychain plugin [3] and his test flight plugin [4])
> don't use this attribute and instead use the
> target-dir="target/location/inside/cordova/projects" to specify where
> certain source files should go.
>
> Can I safely remove this functionality?
>
> [1] https://github.com/phonegap-build
> [2]
> https://github.com/couchbaselabs/cordova-browserid/blob/master/plugin.xml
> [3] https://github.com/shazron/KeychainPlugin/blob/master/plugin.xml
> [4] https://github.com/shazron/TestFlightPlugin/blob/master/plugin.xml
>
>

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