Comments on: What constitutes a version change? http://depts.washington.edu/ontheroa/?p=161 The UW blog for all things Resource Oriented Architecture & web services - email appdev@u.washington.edu Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:23:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Scott Bush http://depts.washington.edu/ontheroa/?p=161&cpage=1#comment-12 Scott Bush Fri, 29 May 2009 16:15:07 +0000 http://depts.washington.edu/ontheroa/?p=161#comment-12 I agree with Rupert in that version integers shouldn't change unless something major occurs. Certainly, any update that would break existing apps (due to an API change or something along those lines) deserves a new version. As for incremental additions, the service code version should be adequate--with an up-to-date reference--to inform developers what data they can access. Incrementing the version integer based on additions to the web services should only happen when those additions are sufficient enough to warrant it. What constitutes "sufficient" is another question... I agree with Rupert in that version integers shouldn’t change unless something major occurs. Certainly, any update that would break existing apps (due to an API change or something along those lines) deserves a new version.
As for incremental additions, the service code version should be adequate–with an up-to-date reference–to inform developers what data they can access. Incrementing the version integer based on additions to the web services should only happen when those additions are sufficient enough to warrant it. What constitutes “sufficient” is another question…

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