[QGIS-Developer] QGIS 2 vs 3 Plugin Problem in plugins.qgis.org
C Hamilton
adenaculture at gmail.com
Wed May 10 12:03:14 PDT 2017
Sorry about that. Ignore this e-mail Somehow the Experimental check box got
unchecked.
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:47 PM, C Hamilton <adenaculture at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a little concerned about the fact that when plugin developers have
> QGIS 2 plugins and then create a QGIS 3.x version and upload it to
> plugins.qgis.org, the plugin no longer shows up in QGIS 2 when you select
> "Plugins->Manage and Install Plugins..." An example of this is the Plugin
> Reloader.
>
> I guess QGIS is looking at the latest version only and since the plugin
> specifies a minimum version of 2.99 it simply does not show up. You have to
> manually download and install the QGIS 2 version.
>
> For QGIS 2 users, if they are using QGIS to search for "Plugin Reloader",
> they wont even know that it exists. I think this is going to be more and
> more of a problem as more developers create 3.x only plugin versions. Is
> there a way to solve this problem? If you are running QGIS 2 have it
> display the proper 2.x release and QGIS 3 have it display the 2.99+ release.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Calvin
>
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