On Nov 16, 2006, at 1:55 AM, Endre Stølsvik wrote:
Don't be too afraid of changing major-versions - other companies routinely go much further than "one-uping": from 1.4 to 5.0 (:-)), and 2.6 to 7 (Solaris), and 3.11 to 95, 4.0 to 2000, 2000 to 'XP' (!), 4 to 6 (Netscape) and so on!! ;-) Tomcat peculiarly went from 5.0 to 5.5 on its java 1.4->1.5 dependency change (which I believe they somewhat regret - that story is rather difficult to get across without "eh, say again?!"s).
AMQ has been good so far about major numbers meaning incompatible wire format changes. I think this is a good idea, and a good thing to remain consistent on.
-Brian
