[dancer-users] Cannot instal Dancer2-Plugin-Passphrase-v2.0.4 - No DSL object found

[Niels Larsen]

How about requiring plugin authors to post a specially tagged 
compatibility notice? then a script could gather, sort and display 
those sections from the authors, and tell the porter which plugin
to investigate himself if the author has not made the section. 

Niels L

On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 16:46 +0100, Sawyer X wrote:
> The problem is that it makes us accountable for every plugin, and I
> definitely don't want that.
> 
> It's great to see Dancer as an ecosystem but we can't account for all
> plugins, their changes, their authors, their design, and their problems. We
> would need to keep our documentation up-to-date on all plugins and I'm not
> sure that's a good idea.
> 
> I think racke's suggestion of providing a place to list plugin information
> (such as "we know these exist" or perhaps "the following are known to work
> on the latest version", etc.) but this has been proven difficult to
> maintain. Hell, the module we used to check whether plugins started having
> problems at some point too.
> 
> While I understand the desire, I'm not sure it's something we can and
> should be doing.
> (not that I'm saying no, I'm simply raising the problem with it because I
> don't know what to do with it yet.)
>