Went Through it With Brad

[Pete Rowley]

Johannes Ernst wrote:
>> 1) 9.1 in the openid.ns parameter talks about using this value in
>> regards to compare with a lower version number of the protocol.  Looking
>> at things such as Jabber, it is nearly impossible to deal with version
>> comparisons in any sane way.  I'm not sure what the best way is to
>> resolve this.
>
> In my experience, one should use a human-comprehensible versioning 
> scheme, but software should only do equals/does not equal comparisons; 
> no automatic "guesses" whether or not version 4 of something is the 
> same as version 2, or to what degree.
That works if you don't believe in backwards compatibility :)

Without the ability to determine the version in use is greater than some 
minimum version or the major version # is different to the one expected 
life gets pretty harsh.


-- 
Pete

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