android: remove legacy support #241
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This depends on non-free software. That, in turn, prevents other software, which depends on r-n-f-s to become non-free.
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But minSdkVersion is 16 here
Granted, that's quite wide and not normally supported these days, but 21 is still likely to be in use throughout the react-native ecosystem as 21 is the current minSdkVersion for react-native itself
So this is a pretty big breaking change to the supported APIs. I don't see any reason why couldn't maintain this in a fork though such that you could use it personally
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thanks for having a look. For better or worse, it's not about me, personally. This particular module is preventing apps, Joplin in particular, from being shipped through F-Droid, because this module unconditionally depends on proprietary binaries. |
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I like F-Droid. I like Fully non-proprietary software, I do agree this is a problem. However, my comment stands: the minSdkVersion in the react-native ecosystem is 21 in general and your PR moves it to 24 (by removing support for fingerprint readers on popular devices between API21-23). So I don't think it will go in as is. I recommend using patch-package if F-Droid can handle that (not sure their build system can...) or depending on a fork of your own for this, until minSdkVersion 24 is a reasonable stance for a library |
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Additionally, the PR should probably include the bump to build.gradle's minSdkVersion to 24 and PR title changed to reflect the same - it's aggressive right now but in a year might be perfect, and then it's just a merge... |
Legacy support depends on non-free software.
That, in turn, prevents other software, which depends on r-n-f-s to become non-free.
#240