[QGIS-Developer] QGIS plugin qgisMinimumVersion

[Borys Jurgiel]

The reason the plugin manager sends just "?qgis=3.4" was because the point 
releases ("micro" versions) are expected to only provide bugfixes and not new 
features. After some thinking, I guess this approach is wrong and a bug is 
also a reason to prevent the plugin from installing. It's easy to change it in  
master, I'm not sure if it we should do it in a point release of the LTR...

Another place to change would be the repository, as it also cuts off the point 
release part. For example, the OpenLayers Plugin has minimumQgisVersion=3.0.1 
and is visible here:
http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml?qgis=3.1
but not here:
http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml?qgis=3.0.2

Regards,
Borys

Dnia poniedziałek, 11 marca 2019 13:02:19 CET Havard Tveite pisze:
> I just experienced a problem with a plugin.
> The plugin uses the optional "is_child_algorithm" parameter of
> the processing.run function.  That parameter was introduced in
> 3.4.5 (LTR).
> 
> I therefore set "qgisMinimumVersion=3.4.5" in the plugin's
> metadata.txt.
> It turned out that this caused the plugin not to be available for
> the current LTR, probably because "Parameters" is set to
> "?qgis=3.4" in the Plugin manager in 3.4.5.
> 
> Changing to "qgisMinimumVersion=3.4", makes the plugin show in
> the plugin manager, but that also makes it available in 3.4.4
> and earlier 3.4 versions (where it will fail with an unexpected
> keyword argument for processing.run...).
> 
> Could "micro" version be included in the Plugin manager
> "Parameters", or is this something that will have to be handled
> in the plugin code?
> 
> Håvard