deprecation notice
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-###Project has now been merged into the [cordova-wp8](https://github.com/apache/cordova-wp8) repository.
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+📌 **Deprecation Notice**
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+This repository is deprecated and no more work will be done on this by Apache Cordova. You can continue to use this and it should work as-is but any future issues will not be fixed by the Cordova community.
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+Feel free to fork this repository and improve your fork. Existing forks are listed in [Network](../../network) and [Forks](../../network/members).
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+- Learn more: https://github.com/apache/cordova/blob/master/deprecated.md#deprecated-platforms
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+### Project has now been merged into the [cordova-wp8](https://github.com/apache/cordova-wp8) repository.
