I just responded to the other thread related to this, but more succinctly:
For modern versions of Daffodil you shouldn't need different plugin versions for
different Daffodil versions.
A charset plugin will work with all version of Daffodil 3.4.0 or newer
A layer plugin will work with all versions of Daffodil 3.8.0 or newer
A UDF plugin will work with all versions of Daffodil 3.0.0 or newer
I suggest only including a daffodil version in the name or version of a plugin
if you are maintaining a plugin for use with an older version of Daffodil than
listed above. It should not be needed for newer versions of Daffodil as long as
we continue to maintain backwards compatibility. And I think our APIs are stable
enough that this shouldn't be a problem.
So if you want a charset plugin to work with 3.8 and 3.9, you can built it with
an modern version of Daffodil and the jar should work with all of them. Note
that if this isn't the case, it means we probably have a bug somewhere, or maybe
I have the version numbers off.
On 2024-10-25 02:41 PM, Mike Beckerle wrote:
I want to have a daffodil 3.8.0 and a daffodil 3.9.0 version of an
extendedCharsets plugin.
This is true of all our plugins, layers, UDFs, etc.
But the jar file created when compiling them is not named differently for
different versions of daffodil.
That suggests that I need to have different versions for different versions
of daffodil, e.g.,
version 1.1.380 for daffodil 3.8.0, and version 1.1.390 for daffodil 3.9.0
Or am I missing something about how to do this?
Mike Beckerle
Apache Daffodil PMC | daffodil.apache.org
OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair | www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/standards/dfdl/dfdl
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