[Qgis-developer] Preventing plugin conflicts at 2.0

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 06:39:38AM -0800, Gary Sherman wrote:
> Greetings developers,
> 
> I think we should consider a way to flag existing plugins that are not
> compatible with the new 2.0 api. This will improve user experience by
> preventing install of plugins that do not work with the users current QGIS
> version.
> 
> Ideally all plugins would be converted to work with both 1.8 and 2.0, but
> this either won't happen completely or will take an unknown amount of time.
> 
> This situation has already happened to those living on the bleeding edge
> (using 1.9 in production):
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/57718/qgis-trace-tool-error/57724#57724
> 
> One way to do this is to implement a "QGIS maximum version" entry in the
> plugins metadata (or __init__.py). Alternatively there may be a way to do
> this with the plugin repository app, however I'm not familiar enough with
> its implementation to suggest how that could be done.
> 
> Please provide feedback...

What about using "semantic versioning": http://semver.org/

I've been using it lately as it's the default for node.js modules.
It lets you express your requirement in a more powerful way.

--strk;