Support IntelliJ Idea 2021.3

[Krivich]

Describe the need of your request

Is it possible to support old IntelliJ Idea 2021.3 in new builds? Due to corporate bureaucracy I have to use old license and can't update to the modern IntelliJ but last CodeGPT builds are not supporting old IntelliJ. Me and a dozens of my colleagues appreciate if this great plugin support IntelliJ 2021.3+. Thanks!

Proposed solution

Publish build for 2021.3+

Additional context

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[carlrobertoh]

Hi

Supporting older IDE builds means that I have to maintain each build separately from the master branch due to their compatibility issues. Every new feature/fix must be single-handedly picked, resolved, and tested, which unfortunately means a lot of maintenance overhead and takes time away from new features.

However, I'm not throwing out the idea yet.

[Krivich]

I understand your pain and really appreciate your efforts! Sorry, I can't help much but I can share some ideas if you want:

1. Engineering approach: extract API-dependent code into isolated modules and load them dynamically. Most probably this approach may help maintain all versions in one branch in one build.
2. Organization approach: low frequency of old API releases. For example at every 5 release for modern-API , build release for the old API.