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amitdev / PMD-Intellij

Plugin for doing static analysis in Intellij using PMD
http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=1137
MIT License
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Hide old versions in marketplace? #200

Open adangel opened 3 days ago

adangel commented 3 days ago

The problem:

When JetBrains releases a new version and updates your local installation of IntelliJ, they try to install the same plugins as before.

For the PMDPlugin, they find the version 1.8.18 as the latest version, that is allegedly compatible: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/1137-pmd/versions/stable/129323

1.8.18 claims to be compatible with 2020.1 and any later version (e.g. 2025.1...)

However, this is not true.... this results in various errors ("The 1.8.x version creates a lot of NPEs right after the start...").

This problem will arise for every new version the JetBrains releases.

Possible solution:

One way to deal with that is, to hide the old versions. If @amitdev or @jborgers have access to the marketplace, this is possible: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/marketplace/plugin-updates.html#hide-a-plugin-update (or the old versions could be removed completely)

I assume (not tested...) that then the users would see in the plugin list of IntelliJ after an upgrade, that PMD Plugin is not compatible anymore and there is no compatible version available.

Alternative:

Alternatively, we could start claming forward compatibility again, by just configuring the minimum version of IntelliJ the plugin is compatible with. That means, that the latest version would be installable always in the latest IntelliJ version - but it might not work correctly. At least, there is a chance, that is "just" works.

jborgers commented 2 days ago

In my opinion we should hide or remove the 1.8.18 version.

Claiming forward compatibility on the newest version will likely fail on the new intelliJ version, so I am not in favor of that. We should however act more quickly when a new version arrives, in my view .

@amitdev could you hide/remove version 1.8.18? I don't seem to have access rights to the marketplace.

adangel commented 2 days ago

hide/remove version 1.8.18

note, this means all versions below 1.8.18 as well - 1.8.19 is the first version, that defines an upper bound, but not the older versions (1.1 - 1.8.18).

jborgers commented 2 days ago

We can be notified about new IntelliJ (early access) releases, I subscribed here: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/