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From: Filip Maj <maj.fil@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 05:52:33 -0800
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Subject: Re: plugins and engines
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archived-at: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 13:52:59 -0000

Sounds like a good idea, but how to go about doing it? We probably
can't easily, for example, rule out older versions of iOS without
someone testing with an old Xcode version.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Shazron <shazron@gmail.com> wrote:
> Related: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6582
> (almost 3 years old...)
>
> TLDR; we should update the engine tags, with as much granularity as
> possible.
>
> I think we didn't do this because we don't actually know if it *doesn't*
> work on an older version (since of course we don't test the current version
> with older platform version) and didn't want to unnecessarily restrict a
> user from installing it.
>
> We planned to pin core plugins to a cordova-lib version but we decided to
> use engine tags in plugins:
> https://github.com/cordova/cordova-discuss/blob/master/proposals/pinningAndVersioning.md
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 12:26 PM, julio cesar sanchez <jcesarmobile@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> I have noticed that most of the plugins don't use the engine tags or have
>> them set to cordova 3.0.0 or 3.1.0 which are very old.
>>
>> As we drop support for old iOS/Android versions when updating cordova-ios
>> and cordova-android, what is our policy for iOS/Android versions support in
>> plugins?
>>
>> Right now people can use the plugins on very old versions of iOS or Android
>> despite we don't support them on the platforms, as the plugins engines are
>> set to 3.0.0 or 3.1.0 on most of them.
>>
>> Should we start updating the engines to newer cordova versions? or even
>> fine grain it to cordova-ios/cordova-android versions?
>> I have noticed that we even have engines for iOS versions using apple-ios
>> on the engine tag
>> https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-wkwebview-
>> engine/blob/master/plugin.xml#L35
>> (but not sure if this really does something as the plugin can be
>> installed/used in older iOS versions and what works or doesn't work is
>> controlled in the code)
>>
>> Or just say that the old Android/iOS version is not supported by Cordova
>> anymore if someone complains about a plugin not working?
>>

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