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Versioning of plugins

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#166 opened on Mar 2, 2017

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Description

Please consider adding functionality to install a specific version/to update to a specific version of a plugin. Also please consider versioning/tagging plugins in their repos.

The recent changes in the nodejes plugin broke a lot of setups.

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Research direction
Investigate how plugins are currently installed and versioned. Propose a versioning scheme for plugin repositories and update the installation command to accept a version parameter.
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go
Domain
tooling
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Feature
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2
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
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70