Re: [TWiki-Dev] [SVN] r8358 - twiki/branches/DEVELOP/twikiplugins/ToolTipPlugin/lib/TWiki/Plugins

[Crawford C. <cc...@c-...>]

Colas Nahaboo wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:28:43 +0100
>André Ulrich <and...@st...> wrote:
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>>Ok, but isn´t this a general problem? 
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>Also, one could think that if they don't upgrade they will not upgrade their
>plugins either (fear of breaking things), so the point is - IMO - moot...
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The point (I guess) is that Cairo users may want to leverage plugins
fixes that are written since TWiki-4.0.0 in their Cairo releases,
without being forced to upgrade their core.

This is a call that needs to be left to the plugin author. If an author
wants the widest possible audience for their plugin they will write
compatibility code. If they need TWiki-4.0.0 functionality, then they
won't (though presumably older versions of the plugin remain available).

We never had this discussion at the release meeting; but FWIW here's my
view:

   1. /Links/ to Plugin versions compatible with Cairo should be
      gathered in a single topic e.g. Plugins.CairoPlugins.
          * i.e. links to viewfile of the appropriate rev in the plugin
            topic
          * Plugin authors may want to link to more recent versions here
            if they release updates compatible with both Cairo and
            TWiki-4.0.0
   2. As part of the TWiki-4.0.0 release process, Plugins topics on
      twiki.org should be updated to the versions in subversion
          * this can be done by a script simply iterating over all the
            plugins, doing a perl build.pl upload for each
   3. The front page of the plugins web should be updated to document this.

C.