mherger wrote: 
> > OK. But I still think it could be worthwhile to fix the versioning
> > scheme that has been broken since 7.0 :)
> 
> Can you remind me what is broken? I think the problem was simply that 
> devs didn't update their repositories, thus many plugins were no longer
> 
> available when a version number in LMS was bumped. We'd have to fix 
> those devs IIRC :-).
> 

Sure. But one problem was that you could not easily set the version
numbers to something that allows testing without automatically making
the plugin compatible with the release version, too:

> 
> 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
> 

If that wasn't the case you could e.g. set a maxVersion to something
that allows testing under a - say - 7.8.1 beta so that users can try it
and find out whether it works or not.
Right now, if you do that and don't change your repo back after the
release the plugin will also work with the final release even if the
test turned out to be negative.

That said: in most cases you are probably right and since most devs
don't touch their plugins with every server release there will likely
still be a "*" in the maxVersion making more sophisticated versioning
kind of moot...



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