Hello Cordova devs,
I'm Jean-Christophe Hoelt, author of the Cordova "In-App Purchase"
plugin for iOS/Android/Windows (cordova-plugin-purchase).
cordova-android's recently had issues with file paths during plugin
installation.
A clean solution to the issue will require introducing breaking change
in the `plugin.xml` file with the next major release.
As a plugin author, I'd like to discuss a simple change to structure of
`plugin.xml` that should make things more flexible for us, plugins
authors, who like to support multiple version of cordova.
I explained my suggestion on GitHub and was advised to raise the issue
on the mailing list.
https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/issues/585
I copy the core idea below.
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Has it been ever considered to allow multiple `<platform>` tags with version
filters?
Here is a short demo of what I mean in a plugin description file:
```xml
<plugin ...>
<platform type="android" version="<8.0.0">
...
<source-file src="src/android/ILib.aidl"
target-dir="src/com/android/vending/billing" />
...
</platform>
<platform type="android" version=">=8.0.0">
...
<lib-file src="src/android/ILib.aidl" />
...
</platform>
<platform type="android" version="*">
... common stuff ...
</platform>
</plugin>
```
Note: `version="*"` should be optional, thus keeping compatibility with
plugins that do not make use of the feature.
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Best regards,
JC
