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

On my test windows I'm able to get message like this:
https://cloudup.com/c93D9Hvxojo -- but it ain't much of an help for my
users...

On other hand, I might be able to get the "hey, you need to update your
netbeans to them my own message channel (extra field in json from my
server) -- can I get the netbeans version during runtime somehow. I looked
into the apidoc but couldn't even see where it could be defined/accessible.

-Jarmo

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:43 PM, Jarmo Isotalo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yea, so I want to have the plugin to support versions 8.0.x and newer -
> and build application+plugin bundle using the latest NetBeans (8.1).
> We host the updates on our own and request our users to add new update
> site...
>
> So basically building the plugin for 8.0.x would suffice if then I could
> somehow tell the application + plugin bundle to use the latest NetBeans and
> the plugin built for the 8.0.2.
>
> Can I somehow make the update center to tell "You need newer version of
> NetBeans to install this update" -- not just saying we would need these
> plugins which are not available to install this?
>
> -Jarmo
>
>
>
> Right, caught me, I red only like 5 months back... (also this might really
> belong to dev...)
>
> We host the updates site on our own
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:23 PM, BR Brett Ryan (3456) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I think the issue is needing to somehow support different versions of the
>> same plugin for different NetBeans versions on the update centre. I think
>> this has come up a few times with the only solution being to provide
>> different names in the plugin?
>>
>> I recall this coming up maybe 12 months ago?
>>
>> On 10 Mar 2016, at 08:15, Benno Markiewicz <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>> <https://gist.github.com/jamox/f7644f1164f7527b3c0f#file-gistfile1-txt-L36-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!
>>>
>>
>>
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