"Noah Kantrowitz" <[email protected]> writes:

> Different plugin authors do things differently. For my stuffs, I only keep
> one branch per Trac major version. I don't seem much value in ever
> installing anything other than the most recent version of a plugin. Version
> numbers are provided for human convenience mostly, though if the same plugin
> is installed twice, the higher version copy will be used automatically.
> Again this changes author to author, but I generally only rev mine after a
> major change of somesort, so that when people ask for help I can use that to
> know if they have a certain fix or need to upgrade.

Thanks.  I don't see any value in old versions either; it's just that
having distfiles identified by version is used by packaging systems and
it seems plugin culture is different.  I will see about using the svn
support with a particular revision number.

>> Also, after installing a plugin I got an error saying I needed to do
>> trac-admin upgrade.  I did and then all was well, but I didn't expect
>> this from the plugin docs at http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracPlugins.
>
> The upgrade system is an extension point like any other. In the case of
> mastertickets, it needs to add a new database table.

OK, that makes sense.  Perhaps would be good to note this on the plugin
page.

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