[Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

[Sandro Santilli]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:35:05PM +0200, Werner Macho wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Short answer from me
> 
> +1 and go ahead .. As I remember we all knew that on the way to 2.0
> there will be some API Changes - but as long as it improves QGIS at a
> Project I see no Problem for it ..
> 
> The only thing you are worrying about are the Plugins .. but hey - there
> is still 1.8 ..

Assuming it's going to be maintained...

> And once all those changes settled in (upcoming) 2.0 - from my point of
> view it would be time for a new release ..
> 
> Probably we should introduce a max.Version to plugins too? ;)

I think all changes should be made backward compatible unless the development
cost in doing so is higher than the development cost of upgrading all plugins.

--strk;