[Qgis-developer] Version number in plugin path?

[Carson Farmer]

+1
This would be great for users and plugin developers alike...

Nice idea Barry!

Carson
> Hi
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> This sounds like a good idea to me too - it will also let people use
> multiple versions of QGIS on their machines...(ignoring other issues
> like project file versioning etc).
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> Regards
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> Tim
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> 2008/11/2 Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>:
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>> Given the API changes between 0.11 and 1.0, wouldn't it be sensible to
>> put the version number in plugin paths? So that plugins for 0.11 would
>> be in ~user/.qgis/python/plugins/0.11/ and those for 1.0 would be in
>> ~user/.qgis/python/plugins/1.0/?
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>> The granularity of the version number in the path only needs to match
>> that of the api stability, so if the next api change is for 2.0, then
>> there's probably no need to have a /1.1/ plugin folder.
>>
>> Just a thought. The R stats package does this and it works nicely.
>>
>> Barry
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