Re: Extensions requiring metadata update for 3.24

[Jason DeRose <list derose io>]

Ok, thanks for the response. I misunderstood that I would not need to submit a new extensions revision when a new version of Gnome was released, but it seems I will just need to test and submit a week or two before official release to ensure there is no outage for those on rolling distros.

Thanks!

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017, at 07:04 PM, Florian Müllner wrote:

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:24 PM Jason DeRose <list derose io> wrote:

Ok, I see. It seems the behavior I read about was specifically patched

into Fedora 25

No, it's an upstream change:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit?id=5e0e3edc7be44c9

However the setting applies to whether installed extensions that are out-of-date should be loaded by gnome-shell, nothing else. That is, you can now update to a new GNOME version without losing your existing extensions.

(Regarding extension installation, we are in a transition where we want to discourage the use of the website for installation/management in favor of the extension support in GNOME Software, but unfortunately the latter isn't quite up to par yet and therefore got delayed to the next development cycle)

-- Florian