Re: What is the easiest way to find out, to which Gnome-Shell version an extension is compatible?

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Bazon Bloch <bazonbloch arcor de> wrote:
> Sorry, I should have said it more precisely: I wrote an extension and want
> to know, what I can enter in the metadata.json apart from Version 3.4 which
> I am using.

Testing with different shell versions is the only way. You can do this
with a VM (Boxes makes this super easy) or not.

> Am 07.09.2012 21:09 schrieb "Davide Alberelli" <dadexix86 gmail com>:
>
>> 2012/9/7 Bazon Bloch <bazonbloch arcor de>
>> >
>> > Of course virtual machines are possible in order to test that, but is
>> > there an easier way to test that?
>> > Thanks!
>>
>> I think that an answer could be to have a look at the file
>> 'metadata.json' in the extension folder.
>> It should contain a line like this:
>>   "shell-version": ["3.5.2", "3.5.3", "3.5.4", "3.5.5", "3.5.90",
>> "3.5.91"]
>> that explicitly set the compatible versions of the shell.
>>
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