Troubles with template/Properties/Default.rd.xml

[brodycj]

Continuation of https://github.com/apache/cordova-discuss/issues/106 which is now closed:

cordova-windows has suffered from the following issues with template/Properties/Default.rd.xml that was introduced in GH-228 (CB-12499):

• CB-13834 - problem building with build with params --release --bundle --archs="x64 x86 arm" on AppVeyor CI which remains unsolved
• ~~CB-14224 - running coho audit-license-headers -r windows gives a message that template/Properties/Default.rd.xml is missing the license header~~ (already solved in GH-284 [master] and GH-285 [6.0.x patch])
• ~~CB-14225 - misspelling in sample Namespace serialize attribute name (with solution in GH-286)~~

It is clear from CB-12499 that Default.rd.xml was introduced to solve a problem but it is unfortunately the actual circumstances are not so clear to me. The following observations indicate to me that Default.rd.xml should only be needed in case of a project using C# which I think is not always the case:

• If I would try generating both a JavaScript UWP project and a C# UWP project then VS 2017 would only add Properties/Default.rd.xml in case of C#.
• Microsoft / Windows-universal-samples keeps its sample Default.rd.xml in a cs directory (Microsoft / Windows-universal-samples / SharedContent / cs / Default.rd.xml

Given the observed troubles and what I think are limited circumstances of need I would like to propose that we remove template/Properties/Default.rd.xml at some point in the future, as a major release item, and support it in a plugin if needed.

[brodycj]

• CB-13834 - problem building with build with params --release --bundle --archs="x64 x86 arm" on AppVeyor CI which remains unsolved

now reported in GH-290

[timbru31]

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