Values for since-build in <idea-version> of plugin.xml?

I too am trying to make an existing plugin compatible against the Community edition (90.96 build). I refered to this Build numbers wiki http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/Build+Number+Ranges which suggests 10000+ as the build number range for IDEA9:

IntelliJ IDEA 9 - 10000+

But this doesn't work. I had to set the until-build to either 90.96 (or 90.97 and higher) to get the plugin working in the community edition:

<idea-version since-build="9000" until-build="90.96" />

Obviously, this isn't a feasible solution because i see that the number will be incremented to 90.97 or something else after the next release. So what is the correct build number range (upper limit) for the community edition?

Hello Jaikiran,

Specifying an upper limit doesn't make much sense because you don't know
when your plugin will actually stop working. There is no "correct" thing
to specify there.

I too am trying to make an existing plugin compatible against the
Community edition (90.96 build). I refered to this Build numbers wiki
http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/BuildNumberRange
s which suggests 10000+ as the build number range for IDEA9:

IntelliJ IDEA 9 -
> 10000+

But this doesn't work. I had to set the until-build to either 90.96
(or 90.97 and higher) to get the plugin working in the community
edition:

 since-build="9000" until-build="90.96" /> ]]>

Obviously, this isn't a feasible solution because i see that the
number will be incremented to 90.97 or something else after the next
release. So what is the correct build number range (upper limit) for
the community edition?

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Hello Gordon,

I've updated http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/BuildNumberRanges
to include some information on the new build numbering system.

With the release of the Community Edition, the old build numbering
which one used in the since-build attribute of the <idea-version> tag
in plugin.xml has been replaced with a very odd version string like
"IC 90.96". I was wondering how we make use of this to indicate that a
plugin requires this particular build of IDEA?

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Thanks for the info. So just to confirm, I can use "IC 90.96" as a value for since-build? What if I don't care whether it's IC or IU?

Hello Gordon,

Thanks for the info. So just to confirm, I can use "IC 90.96" as a
value for since-build? What if I don't care whether it's IC or IU?

I'm not sure if "IC 90.96" will work, but simply 90.96 will.

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JetBrains, Inc.
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yole wrote:

Hello Jaikiran,

Specifying an upper limit doesn't make much sense because you don't know
when your plugin will actually stop working. There is no "correct" thing
to specify there.

Hello Dmitry,

Thanks for your help, and also for updating the build numbers wiki.

Just to be clear: Are you saying that it might be best to leave out the until-build
attribute completely? I ask because I'm sure that at some point in the past,
I had to add the until-build attribute because otherwise the plugin wouldn't
show up as available (sometime during the 8.0 EAP IIRC), so removing it again
makes me wonder if I might break my plugin for users with older IDEA versions.

Here's what my Code Review Plugin, which AFAIK works fine with all IDEA versions
since 7.0, currently has in plugin.xml:

<idea-version since-build="7000" until-build="11999"/>

That has been working fine for me at least with the Maia EAPs, but a colleague
who also uses the EAPs wasn't able to get it to work (it showed up as red)
until he edited/removed the idea-version tag. Should I change the tag to
the following?

<idea-version since-build="7000"/>

I suspect plenty of other plugins are suffering from similar problems too.

Regards,
Chris


DJ> Specifying an upper limit doesn't make much sense because you don't
DJ> know when your plugin will actually stop working. There is no
DJ> "correct" thing to specify there.
DJ>
>> I too am trying to make an existing plugin compatible against the
>> Community edition (90.96 build). I refered to this Build numbers wiki
>> http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/BuildNumberRang
>> e s which suggests 10000+ as the build number range for IDEA9:
>>
>>

IntelliJ IDEA 9 -
>> 10000+

>>
>> But this doesn't work. I had to set the until-build to either 90.96
>> (or 90.97 and higher) to get the plugin working in the community
>> edition:
>>
>>

> since-build="9000" until-build="90.96" /> ]]>

>>
>> Obviously, this isn't a feasible solution because i see that the
>> number will be incremented to 90.97 or something else after the next
>> release. So what is the correct build number range (upper limit) for
>> the community edition?
>>
>> ---
>> Original message URL:
>> http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/message/5247929#5247929