[QGIS-Developer] QGIS plugin qgisMinimumVersion

[Havard Tveite]

Could this be regarded as a bug in the plugin manager?
In that case it should be OK to fix it in a point release.

Håvard

On 11.03.2019 14:31, Borys Jurgiel wrote:
> 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