Re: Building plugin for both 8.0.x and 8.1 series and 8.1 application bundle with recent e.g progress api changes

Hej Jamo,

I don't understand your question correctly. If the target platform is 8.1
then the plugin won't run in NB <8.1. That tells you the error messages
from the gist. You are requesting dependencies with a version from NB8.1,
but NB8.0.2 cannot provide them.

With kind regards, markiewb

2016-03-09 22:07 GMT+01:00 <[email protected]>:

> Hello,
>
> There is something I coudln't figure out on my own, about the api
> changes in NetBeans 8.1 (or maybe bigger question how the versioning is
> done)...
>
> We have this plugin: https://github.com/testmycode/tmc-netbeans which
> consists of the plugin itself and the application part (which I assume
> we use for building the bundled plugin+application installer).
>
> Recently we wanted to start building the bundled application with
> NetBeans 8.1 so that our users will get the latest NetBeans. So I
> routinely upgraded the plugin project to use NetBeans 8.1 as the
> nbplatform. However now the api changes, most notably
> org.netbeans.api.progress.nb caused some issues. (We use:
> org.netbeans.api.progress.ProgressHandleFactory).
>
> After adding this plugin as dependency, new releases, (plugin updates),
> will no longer install to NetBeans 8.0.2 clients as the
> org.netbeans.api.progress.nb couldn't be found. Error is something like
> this (someone managed to install the update to older netbeans:
> https://gist.github.com/jamox/f7644f1164f7527b3c0f#file-gistfile1-txt-L
> 36-L65 (this specific in in a case when installing the update was
> possible, or forced).
>
> What I've figured out, If I use 8.0.2 as the nbplatform, plugins
> installed to 8.1 applications will work due to the compatibility
> additions. and ofc also with 8.0.2 as plugins was build using it.
>
> So the question the wall of text leads to:
> How I can generate the bundled application installer for 8.1 but build
> the application so that the plugin/update would be installable to older
> 8.0.x NetBeanses as well.
>
> One solution would be to have separate branches even to have one using
> 8.0.2 and other using 8.1 - which sounds really tedious and error
> prone...
>
> Thanks!
>