[QGIS-Developer] QGIS version 3.98 instead of 3.99 ?

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi Andrea,

Yes, I understood, but we ourselves have created this issue by telling plugin devs to set the max to 3.99 (and make the min/max range NOT including the max).... Which is the proper way, I think.

But, contrary to your fixes, in my view this would have been much easier fixable by calling current master version just 3.45 (and release it as 4.0.0) (and add 3.45 as a proper QGIS version in the Django plugins app).

To be honest, to make my local Qt5 build usable again, I just set the
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L64
to 44 so my (own) 3.44 (actually master) version will work as expected (to me).

Regards,

Richard

On 27-06-2025 17:39, Andrea Giudiceandrea wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> have you received my previous message in this thread?
> 
> As explained, QGIS 3.99.0-Master behaves like it was already QGIS 4.0.0 when dealing with plugins due to PR "Make QGIS 2.99 compatible with 3.0 plugins by introducing PyQGIS API version", so all the external plugins having max version tag set to 3.99 (like 99% of the currently available plugins) and the core ones are rejected. Moreover, the plugins.xml for qgis=4.0 is not available, so the official plugin repository doesn't currently work in QGIS 3.99.0-Master.
> 
> In order to restore the capability of your local build of QGIS 3.99.0-Master to use and install any external plugin having the max version tag set to 3.99.0 and the core ones, as it should normally be, I think you could make the following changes that actually revert such PR:
> 
> - remove the following lines from src/app/qgspluginregistry.cpp#L258-L265:
> 
> ```
>    if ( qgisMinor == 99 )
>    {
>      // we want the API version, so for x.99 bump it up to the next major release: e.g. 2.99 to 3.0.0
>      qgisMajor++;
>      qgisMinor = 0;
>      qgisBugfix = 0;
>    };
> 
> ```
> 
> -  remove the following lines from python/pyplugin_installer/version_compare.py#L165-L167:
> 
> ```
>      if y == "99":
>          x = str(int(x) + 1)
>          y = z = "0"
> ```
> 
> 
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Andrea
> 
> 
> Il 27/06/2025 14:59, Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer ha scritto:
>> On 25-06-2025 11:41, Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer wrote:
>>
>>> So maybe best that I make a local edit?
>>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L64
>>
>> Argh that did not work, because the QGIS version is used to retrieve the plugins, and between 3.44 and 3.99 there is nothing available :-(