[wp-testers] Happy Holidays & 2.4 Wishlist

[DD32]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:59:17 +1100, David Dalka <david_dalka4gsb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  I'm still running wordpress 2.1.3 (in fact half the people I know are using this or an older version) because I know that one of my plugins is still not 2.3 complaint. I'd like to suggest that releasing 2.4 while many plugins still aren't 2.3 compliant risks a complete meltdown of the plugin infrastructure and this is my largest area of concern. I realize there is no easy solutions here. However if we focused on this issue - it would eventually remove the last major pain point to getting everyone using the latest and greatest version. Cool new features are nice but if people can't upgrade painlessly, they are of questionable value. I hope we can make progress on this issue in 2008 so that the community focus can shift to new feature suggestion and admiration instead of upgrading problems, concerns and blog abandonment.

You're just going to have to bug the plugin authors, Generally Plugins that are written well and use the WP API rarely break between releases, Bug if a plugin needs to do direct SQL queries, or relies on a non-API functionality, Then things can break.
Its a bit hard for Core WP Devs to track how all plugins interact with non-API functionality and allow for backwards compatibility there.

Got a list of the plugins that are not compatible? (The fact the Wordpress.org page says they're only compatibler with upto 2.1.x can be just because the author never got around to updating it) -- I have a few plugins running which are only rated for upto 2.0.4 or something, but work fine under 2.4 at present.