[CB-11860] Cordova-iOS cannot package distributions apps with Xcode 8

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.3.0
• Component/s: cordova-ios
• Assignee: Darryl Pogue
• Reporter: Darryl Pogue
• Created: 15/Sep/16 23:58
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:49
• Resolved: 04/Oct/16 23:07

Description

See mailing list thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/85a715681471c774821d76a90ec288943eca1a4bb0a267ba299d2eb3@%3Cdev.cordova.apache.org%3E

My proposal is for cordova-ios to drop support for Xcode 6 with the xcrun
packaging, and start using xcodebuild for archiving and generating the IPA.
I suppose that would have to wait for a major version bump of cordova-ios,
unless we detected the Xcode version and kept the old code around
conditionally.

As part of packaging, we would need to generate a exportOptions.plist file,
indicating what type of build to package (development, enterprise, ad-hoc,
or app-store). I'd suggest we add a "packageType" or "buildType" field to
build.json for specifying this value (with a default of development).

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CB-11850 Xcode 8 - PackageApplication is deprecated
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #257
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #659