[Pulp-dev] Pulp3 Plugin API SemVer Strategy

[Patrick Creech]

On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 11:18 -0400, Bihan Zhang wrote:
> I've been documenting the plugin API semver strategy for 3.0 but I've noticed that the plugins
> were recently moved from plugin/pulp/plugin to platform/pulp/plugin
> 
> My understanding was that we would have separate packages for plugin and platform to enforce the
> separate semantic versioning, instead of just having documentation on the plugin version supported
> by platform. 
> 
> I think the correct workflow is for a plugin writer would denote in their spec file (or setup.py)
> what pulpcore-plugin versions are supported, and on installation the package manager can pull in
> the correct pulpcore-plugin package with the correct platform dependency.
> 
> 
> I wanted to check that this was everyone else's understanding too.

+1 to separating these as packages.  Having a package version to depend on should help enforce the
plugin api version.
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