[josm-dev] Hi to all plugin maintainers!

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Ilya Zverev wrote:

> Not a day without surprise: one of josm-tested users has been greeted with 
> the following message: "CommandLine plugin needs JOSM version 4980, and you 
> have 4878". It turns out, most plugins in osm svn had their minimal versions 
> updated to 4980, which is greater that josm-tested version. Obviously, it was 
> because a lot of shortcut code was deprecated, and someone decided that 
> deprecation should immediately be followed by removal. Consequently, if 
> someone wants to have the latest version of a specific plugin, he also has to 
> upgrade to the latest, unstable version of JOSM. And I don't know what those 
> who download josm-tested for the first time should do.

Old josm version don't get newer plugins. So when your user had a version 
requiring 4980, but he only has 4878, then he did no use the internal 
plugin interface to download it. When users download files by hand, then 
automatic methods do not work.

In this case simply do a "plugin update" in JOSM, which in this case 
results in a real "downgrade" to the last valid plugin for this version.

Ciao
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