[josm-dev] JOSM v1084 breaks plugin loading

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:

>> Did you notice, that The MANIFEST.MF now has a Plugin-MainVersion, where
>
> You mean Plugin-MainVersion is actually Plugin-RequiredJosmVersion?

You have a renaming tendency, have you?

>> you can request a certain revision of JOSM. This is to make such cases
>> come up with a proper message like "You need JOSM version xxx".
>
>> Sadly it does not work the other way round (Telling you that "xxx is no
>> longer supported".
>
> Who issues that message? If it comes from the JOSM core, then surely it

JOSM.

> should be possible to furnish the core with a list of "minimum plugin
> versions" and then have a bidirectional test - the plugin gets to say
> whether it thinks JOSM is recent enough, and JOSM gets to say whether it
> thinks the plugin is recent enough ;-)

That would mean we need to implement a list with minimum revisions for 
each plugin. I don't like that much. I think the new "You did not update 
plugins for xx days" test I added should help here.

Ciao
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