Gary, Thanks for your helpful comments. I will immediately put a notice on the repository to state the minimum requirement.
Regarding packaging as an extension, this would be my dream but I need some help to do this. I have read through the packaging documentation several times and would appreciate some help from you in this direction. Thanks Ian Sent from my iPad > On 24 May 2019, at 06:42, gjr80 <gjroder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The tag formatting taxonomy was changed in WeeWX v3.9.0 with the introduction > of .format. Backwards compatibility was maintained, ie 3.9.0 and above > supports the old tag taxonomy, unfortunately forwards compatibility does not > exist in pre-3.9.0 versions :) . Simple solution, upgrade to the latest WeeWX > release. > > The reason why the documentation refers to .format is that the on-line > documentation always reflects the current WeeWX release. If you want to look > at the documentation for your installed version the best bet is to use the > documentation that is installed on your WeeWX machine. > > Ian. You might want to look at packaging the Weather34 template as a WeeWX > extension, a little more effort for the maintainer but a much easier install > process for the user. You can also put a 'minimum WeeWX version' check in the > install routine to prevent installation on an unsupported version of WeeWX. > Failing that you probably should specify somewhere that your current relase > requires WeeWX 3.9.0 or later. > > Gary > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/84fe2c84-9551-4089-97d9-afacb302191c%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/A2417789-0CF2-42A2-9E8D-1DA1CC7276FA%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
