How to remove cordova-plugin-compat?

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In the release notes of cordova-android 6.3.0 (https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2017/09/27/android-release.html) it's written down that cordova-plugin-compat has to be removed

If I try

cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-compat

I get following error

[ERROR] An error occurred while running cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-compat --save (exit code 1):

Error: The plugin ‘cordova-plugin-compat’ is required by (cordova-plugin-calendar, cordova-plugin-camera, cordova-plugin-file, cordova-plugin-geolocation), skipping uninstallation. (try --force if trying to update)

If I then try to --force the remove, it works, the plugin is removed and I'm able to build my android app.

BUT, I just removed my iOS platform to add it again and I face now the error

cordova prepare ios Error: Cannot find plugin.xml for plugin "cordova-plugin-compat". Please try adding it again.

[ERROR] An error occurred while running cordova prepare ios (exit code 1).

Any idea what am I doing wrong? Should really cordova-plugin-compat be removed? Why my iOS platform is referencing it, I thought it was only for android?

I use cordova-android@6.3.0 and cordova-ios@4.5.1

P.S.: If I remove and add the iOS platform, the compat plugin is automatically added as reference in package.json and package-lock.json

UPDATE

The last plugin release (https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/11/10/plugins-release.html) most probably solve this issue respectively it looks like that the problem was the reference to the cordova-plugin-compat plugin from other plugin. But,

I'm not yet able to totally test it and solve it because I'm using another plugin where compat is also referenced (https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/Calendar-PhoneGap-Plugin/issues/426).

I will keep this thread open till I could 100% confirm that this solve the referencing of compat.

FINAL UPDATE

The PR to remove the dependency from Calendar-PhoneGap-Plugin to ‘cordova-plugin-compat’ went thru, I was able to remove this last plugin without "force"

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6 Answers

For me what fixed it was updating the Android SDK via Android Studio, then running:

cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-compat --force
cordova platform rm android
cordova platform add android@6.3.0

Hope that helps someone!

user_43866810

The cordova-plugin-compat is for Android only so it should not cause errors for iOS. I suggest to try to clean your Cordova project.

Delete the following directories : plugins, platforms, node_modules. They will be recreated

Then execute :

cordova platform add android
cordova platform add ios
cordova prepare # usually made by commands above but juste in case
cordova compile
user_27287100

You probably have another plugin that is requiring the compat plugin. Check your plugins' package.json for this.

user_26663920
user_24262240

remove plugin compat older than version 1.2

$ cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-compat --force

then add version 1.2

$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-compat@1.2

This worked handsomely well for me!

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