[QGIS-Developer] Interpretation of qgisMaximumVersion in metadata.txt

Sebastian M. Ernst ernst at pleiszenburg.de
Sat Aug 1 07:56:18 PDT 2020


Hi Borys, all,

> Actually it was never properly synchronized between the installer and
> the repo.

which adds another question ... how is the repo (i.e. QGIS-Django?)
handling it?

> For the installer, both lower and upper boudary are included, so it makes 
> more sense to set it to 3.98 rather than 3.99. 

Ok, thanks.

> By the way - putting 0 to the third 
> position makes yet less sense ;) If you put just 3.98, it will be 
> automatically extended to 3.98.99 [1]. 

It's my parser that fills in the zeros. I need to refine this logic.

> The key thing is even setting the maximum to 3.99 will work, because the 
> current "pyQgisVersion" of QGIS 3.99 is recognized as 4.0! See [2].

This was raising my initial question in the first place.

Best regards,
Sebastian


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