How about reviving the versions on plugins by requiring a real value for the major release, in this case "7.8" as opposed to "7.x" or something (or calling 7.8.1 an 8.0). I believe a lot of the current issues stem from the fact that the versioning for plugins has always been handled somewhat lazily, a lot of which stems from the fact that the way beta versions were handled in the past (or still are) means that you have to add a wildcard version number to have the plugin supported (because the beta build of version X has a _higher_ version number than the final release of version X which kind of doesn't make sense).
The downside of this approach would be that a lot of perfectly working plugins would no longer be available. We could "fix" this by adding a positive list of plugins known to work but not supplying a correct version information. What makes me wonder whether this approach (blocking plugins that don't work) will work is the fact that I have my doubts that anybody will test all plugins in the list (plus the ones not in the default list but available through additional repos as can be found e.g. in the WiKi) so especially more obscure stuff will stay in which is probably exactly the category containing most of the plugins which actually do _not_ work. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101265 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
