[ANN] bzr 2.3b1 released ! (bzr-beta-ppa updated; some plugins uninstallable)

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Wed Sep 29 08:50:00 BST 2010


On 29 September 2010 16:05, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Martin Pool пишет:
>> No, it doesn't.  Plugin authors have a choice about whether they want
>> to be optimistic about their plugins will work with future bzr
>> releases, or pessimistic and only declare compatibility with versions
>> that have been specifically tested.
>>
>> Optimistic:
>>  * declare requirement for bzrlib >= x
>
> IIRC, bzr does (did?) not have support for this. Only for pessimistic
> approach. At least in QBzr we have to code our own version checker for
> optimistic check. Am I missing something?

Well, I think it's easy to check against bzrlib.__version__, but
you're right that bzrlib.api doesn't encourage it.  Perhaps we can
copy the qbzr version into bzrlib?

-- 
Martin



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