feat: 0.4.0 for GitExtensions 6.0

[gerhardol]

Is this needed for plugins?

[RussKie]

I don't know, tbh. It doesn't look like there are any coupling to a specific version of GE.
So, probably, not neeeded?

[gerhardol]

I now realizes what this does, it packages GitExtensions.Extensibility from master.
This was not done at all for the 5.x releases, even if there were some bigger changes from 4.2.1 -5.x
Much fewer changes from 5.2.1 to 6.0.0, but I get a Gerrit popup due to to changed interfaces.

Some plugins uses [0.3-0.4)
I would say this a bugfix release

Maybe including the following too?
gitextensions/gitextensions#12469

[RussKie]

Sounds good

[maraf]

I don't know, tbh. It doesn't look like there are any coupling to a specific version of GE.

The coupling is in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions.pluginmanager/blob/master/src/GitExtensions.PluginManager/Plugin.cs#L55.

The idea is that by selecting minimal version, we limit plugins targeting the version. In other words, ideally we should SemVer (or to simplify things follow Git Extensions version) this package to be able to filter-out plugin targeting older, possibly incompatible, version of Git Extensions

[maraf]

If 6.0 is next major release, we should bump this package to 0.4.0 and update the version in Plugin.cs to 0.4.0 as well, to follow the pattern from previous releases.

[gerhardol]

If 6.0 is next major release, we should bump this package to 0.4.0 and update the version in Plugin.cs to 0.4.0 as well, to follow the pattern from previous releases.

There were no update at all for GE5 and there are quite few changes in GE6. So apps that use 0.3 often works. At least Gerrit plugin will require a recompile with new version.
But from a strict SemVer perspective, the minor version need to be updated too.

[gerhardol]

The PRs in milestone for 6.0.0 is now merged, this should be merged so plugins can be prepared

[maraf]

If Git Extensions V6 are "backward compatible" with existing plugins, we don't need to bump anything.

[gerhardol]

If Git Extensions V6 are "backward compatible" with existing plugins, we don't need to bump anything.

GE 5 did more changes, but the ext version was not changed. No reported problems.
GE 6 makes less changes, but at least one change requires changes in the Gerrit plugin so a new version is required.

It depends on the plugins how the change hits them. I would assume most are compatible with GE4/GE5. If ext version is changed they could stop working.

But we could set version to 0.4 and require plugin updates.

[maraf]

I agree with 0.4