[Opendnssec-develop] RE: Versioning and version support

[Sara Dickinson]

On 26 Nov 2012, at 13:35, Siôn Lloyd wrote:

> I think that this would be good, note however the text for major version
> number says "Major version X (X.y.z | X > 0) MUST be incremented if any
> backwards incompatible changes are introduced to the public API."
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> So that doesn't preclude enforcer-ng being 2.0 even if the API didn't
> change at all if I read it correctly?

Well, it depends if you consider the database schema part of the API I suppose......

But I think your point is that we would still be free to bump versions numbers based on the magnitude of functional changes. And I think the answer is yes, but (IMHO) it could be very confusing for users if we mix and match....  I think this versioning scheme makes a lot of sense for a library because it is aimed at managing dependancies, but for a complex application it does have some drawbacks.... 

> It also means new functionality
> doesn't have to bump the major version.

Indeed - if you just add new stuff it is just a minor version. So this really is quite a change from how we do things now. 

Sara.

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