new fields to {plugin,template}.info.txt

[glensc]

For packaging and figuring out the license, PHP version, minimum supported DokuWiki version I think the following keys are in order:

• license a license keyword from https://spdx.org/licenses/
• php: minimum php version supported, example 7.1
• dokuwiki: minimum php version supported, example 2018-04-22

altho for php and dokuwiki keys, could use composer like syntax: ^5.3 || ^7.0

or otoh, maybe not to invent something new, switch to use composer composer.json format? this would require publishing DokuWiki releases in packagist.org, which is not that bad idea at all.

[glensc]

for example, I created new rpm package, but don't know the versions, so filled arbitary ones:

• https://github.com/pld-linux/dokuwiki-plugin-prosemirror/blob/66dea57c88b5b2216f898ef4c337023dccaaa6ec/dokuwiki-plugin-prosemirror.spec#L4
• https://github.com/pld-linux/dokuwiki-plugin-prosemirror/blob/66dea57c88b5b2216f898ef4c337023dccaaa6ec/dokuwiki-plugin-prosemirror.spec#L17

[Klap-in]

It is for a lot of authors already a challenge to write in that file the right update date. So I guess the other properties are ignored more often. Or there should be something in place that helps and corrects/fills this kind of stuff for the authors.

Does all these files have already a direct use for the authors? Otherwise I don't expect these are filled at all.

[splitbrain]

In addition, the license field is pretty much useless as it would always say GPL2

[Klap-in]

about the prosemirror plugin: I guess the lowest will be the PHP version current supported by DokuWiki itself.

[lpaulsen93]

What about a field like dependencies to list other plugins which need to be installed to make a plugin work.

[glensc]

I mean if plugin generator adds composer.json and dokuwiki itself supports reading it, then the both files can be supported and the .info.txt format retired eventually.

and with composer, plugin authors don't really need to edit the text file, git tag is sufficient, yet this would require using composer ecosystem fully, not just package.json from plugin dir.

[glensc]

i have filled php version in one of my plugins, and dependencies for bundling:

• https://github.com/eventum/dokuwiki-plugin-eventum/blob/2016-08-18/composer.json#L18