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

The official plugin center at http://plugins.netbeans.org/ supports
multiple target versions at the same time.[image: Inline-Bild 1]

The plugins for specific NB version are provided by version specific update
center urls. Like
http://plugins.netbeans.org/nbpluginportal/updates/8.1/catalog.xml.gz
http://plugins.netbeans.org/nbpluginportal/updates/8.0/catalog.xml.gz
http://plugins.netbeans.org/nbpluginportal/updates/x.y/catalog.xml.gz




With kind regards, markiewb

2016-03-09 22:23 GMT+01:00 BR Brett Ryan (3456) <[email protected]
>:

> 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!
>>
>
>