How can mods be compatible with 2.5 and 2.6 simultaneously?

[Endarire]

Greetings, all!

I assume mods can be compatible with 2.5 and 2.6 simultaneously if the mods are updated.  Still, in general, how can mods be compatible with 2.5 and 2.6 simultaneously if they can be?

Thankee!

[subtledoctor]

There is no “in general” answer. Several of my mods are broke because of some changed labels in splprot.2da. So I need to change a line to be more inclusive: from

PATCH_IF (~%label%~ STRING_EQUAL_CASE ~STATE~) BEGIN

to

PATCH_IF (~%label%~ STRING_EQUAL_CASE ~STATE~) OR (~%label%~ STRING_CONTAINS_REGEXP ~statebits=n~ =0)
BEGIN

Easy-peasy: now it works on both patches. 

But other mods may have completely different issues, which may not be amenable to such simple solutions...

Edited April 28, 2021 by subtledoctor

[Jarno Mikkola]

6 minutes ago, subtledoctor said:

But other mods may have completely different issues, which may not be amenable to such simple solutions...

And I am sure there's tons of mods that don't need any thing at all.

[lefreut]

For my UI mods, they will only be compatible with one version. The current versions are for 2.5 and the updates will require 2.6.