On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:00, Branko Èibej wrote:
> * A minor version change implies backward compatible changes in the
> API, schema and protocols. For example, a client built against
> library version X.Y.Z will work correctly with library version
> X.Y+1.n; and an X.Y+1.n server will work correctly with a
> repository created by svnadmin X.Y.Z.
I'd also throw in backward-compatible changes to the programs we ship.
A script written to svn X.Y.Z should work with SVN X.Y+1.n. (For the
most part, anyway. I don't think we need to bump to svn 2.0 if we
change the meaning of "svn diff -r X:Y foo" according to CMike's plan,
for instance, even though it's *conceivable* that a script could be
relying on the old meaning.)
Anyway, I think we agree on the principles here; I just think that
http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html isn't a very complete statement of
those principles as they apply to us.
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Received on Mon Dec 22 01:29:45 2003