Hi,
As both the plugin API and the RC core evolve newer plugins might not work with older versions of RC. Putting this information in the readme or on the website with the plugin is the obvious answer but some people just ignore that and install the wrong version any way. Agreed that is their own fault and they should read the instructions but adding some kind of check into the API for compatible versions seems to be quite easy, using the version_compare function in PHP. I had a little play with it and the idea basically works. There are 2 considerations that I can see:
- It's only a very basic check: "this plugin works with 0.5.2 and later"
- The RC version string needs to be written in the "PHP-standardized" way.
That means it has to be x-dev rather than x-svn and no x-stable just x.0
I'm not sure if this is a waste of time and people should just read instructions, may be it is. If anyone thinks it's a good idea I can make a patch.
Phil
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