[wp-hackers] "Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress."

[John Blackbourn]

I agree with Jeremy here, only showing the message when the major
version number is greater would be a very elegant solution.

2009/1/16 Jeremy Visser <jeremy.visser at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 08:06 +0100, Ozh wrote:
>> When trying to install from WP a plugin which readme says "Requires
>> WordPress Version: 2.5 or higher", there's a warning that says
>> "Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of
>> WordPress."
>>
>> This is not what I expected. Am I missing something, or does this mean
>> we'll have to update every single readme.txt for all plugins every
>> time a new version of WP is out?
>
> I get that impression too, but I think it makes sense, because there is
> always a risk that a plugin will break with a new WP version.
>
> They don't _always_ break, but sometimes do. Until somebody checks that
> it actually works, it is well worth warning the user that it may not
> work.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the current behaviour, but it only makes sense
> to warn if a major version number has changed, e.g. 2.6 → 2.7, but not
> 2.6.2 → 2.6.3, because they are just bugfix releases.
>
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