On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 08:41 +1100, Ian Holsman wrote: > can you add a new method api_version? > some people will probably still want to know the version of the > software being run, and it is still useful info to have for > operational issues.
Yeah, you could, and that was what I had in mind initially. The conclusion I came to though was that with a properly versioned API, the software version was really only of interest to operations, and that it would be better published along with the rest of our management info, (via JMX). > +1 on the numbering scheme. > > as for breaking something that works (ie a client library), you can > make the client library just have a 'SUPPORTED_VERSION' api call and a > 'reported_version' api call, and let the application decide. Sure. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com
