On Sep 11, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Jan Algermissen wrote:
If I am not completely wrong, versioning is definitely an issue if you want to employ Atom in beyond-blogging contexts. Most people that deal with collections of items are definitely interested in keeping track of the former versions of the items.
Versioning is an issue in almost *every* application.
What is so bad about it?
In my experience, the semantics of "versioning" are so tightly bound to particular applications that it's really hard to find common threads. You saw that happen here when we were arguing about atom:updated, Asbjørn had a particular vision of versions that seemed obvious to him and unreasonable to others. When a textbook publisher and a medical-instrument embedded-software maker and a wiki implementor use the word "version", I guarantee you they mean entirely different and wildly incompatible things.
Good luck; you'll need it. -Tim
