Filter by Platform Version and Minecraft Version

[n00b42]

• Filter by Minecraft Version
• Filter by Sponge API Version

[ryantheleach]

To effectively add this I think we need more support for specifying a range of versions that a release will work on.

I'd suggest filtering by Sponge API only.

Minecraft Version, if added, can just be a parent category of Sponge API version if we go down that route.

[phase]

This should be included with the Tag system I described in #307.

[bloodmc]

Yes this needs to be done as the average user will have no idea what Sponge API version means. It's ok for it to be included somewhere but the main search should be by MC version.

[phase]

@ryantheleach said

It should be Minor / Patch version aware, so if a plugin is uploaded with a 4.1 dependency, that would not show on a 4.0.0 filter.

However a 4.0.0 plugin would show on a 4.1 filter.

👍 on that

he also offered this mockup for a first time user

[phase]

Minecraft Versions are waiting on SpongePowered/DownloadIndexer#7

[phase]

I'm adding SpongeForge, SpongeVanilla, & SpongeCommon filtering to this issue too.
See the discussion in SpongePowered/SpongeForge#2367

[gabizou]

Will be able to filter by sponge implementation versions too, if a plugin depends on a specific sponge common (to work on sponge vanilla or sponge forge).

[phase]

changing the title again just for the fun of it

Changing the scope of this issue again to encompass all platform version filters, as I will do them all at the same time. Every platform will have an associated version parser.

Long version strings will be shortened. Things like -SNAPSHOT are long and foreign to users. I think we should replace 8.0-SNAPSHOT with 8.0* or something similar (maybe the star can be blue or some different color?) to differentiate it from a normal version. Same goes for the new Sponge implementations' RC.

Platform	Version Pattern	Version Example	Notes
Sponge API	MAJOR.MINOR(.PATCH)?(-SNAPSHOT)?	8.0	Patch won't exist for 8.0 and onward.
Sponge Common	MCVER-MAJOR.MINOR.RC(-SNAPSHOT)?	1.12.2-8.0.2	We need to support old & new patterns
Sponge Forge	MCVER-FORGEVER-MAJOR.MINOR.RC(-RC##)?	1.12.2-2705-7.1.4	We need to support old & new patterns
Sponge Vanilla	MCVER-MAJOR.MINOR.RC(-RC##)?	1.12.2-7.1.4	We need to support old & new patterns
Lantern	MCVER-MAJOR.MINOR.RC(-RC##)?	1.12.2-7.1.4	Same as SpongeVanilla, won't go into affect for a bit but it should be fine to use it now.
Forge	MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.BUILD	14.23.4.2705	Confirm the format?

A translation from Platform Version to Minecraft Version will be added for platforms that don't have the MC version in the format.

[phit]

can we add mc version to forge? should be easy to get from the version number just needs a table, i.e. when:
14.21 > 1.12
14.22 > 1.12.1
14.23 > 1.12.2

and add this in from of the version, example 1.12.2-14.23.4.2705

also i dont agree with making snapshot just a small star, for all i care make it a big red warning, you really shouldnt depend on snapshots

[phase]

We could put the MC version somewhere else so that the tag is smaller.

[Katrix]

Now supported with the new Vue frontend