Went Through it With Brad

Pete Rowley prowley at redhat.com
Fri Nov 10 19:10:41 UTC 2006


Rowan Kerr wrote:
> On 11/10/06, Pete Rowley <prowley at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> Johannes Ernst wrote:
>>     
>>> In my experience, one should use a human-comprehensible versioning
>>> scheme, but software should only do equals/does not equal comparisons;
>>>       
>> That works if you don't believe in backwards compatibility :)
>>     
>
> All you have to do is match against a list of each known version
> string. OpenID will have to be a bit careful about when these strings
> change though. Having to do 2.0.1patch4, etc, etc every few months
> would be un-fun.
>
>   
And how does that help an application that is released prior to the 
version of thing thing it is interacting with? It may be compatible, but 
it has no way to know.

-- 
Pete

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