Consider releasing a 0.65 with some forwards compatibility for 1.0 about datasette HOT 2 OPEN

Option 1. is where we are now, and it's beginning to suck.

Option 2 is plausible? My datasette-secrets plugin failed on from datasette import Permission - but maybe I could have that class in <1.0 without it doing anything useful, just so plugins can start using register_permissions()? Bit messy though.

What's the minimal work I could do for option 3 to be worthwhile I wonder?

from datasette.

After browsing through 0.64.6...1.0a13 a bit I think a full forward-porting of the permissions work would be too hard. But having a Permission class that can be imported and does nothing except for allow register_permissions() to be called for 1.0a+ might be worthwhile.

The rest of the problem could then be solved in datasette-test. Maybe something like this:

from datasette_test import Datasette

ds = Datasette(
    plugin_config={"datasette-extract": "..."},
    permissions={"manage-secrets": {"id": "admin"}}
)

Where that permissions= thing uses config={"permissions": ...} for Datasette 1.0a+ and some more complex plugin-based mechanism for <1.0.

from datasette.