Hi, Stefan de Konink wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> Alternatively, we could switch from 0.5 to 0.5.1 tomorrow, with the >> only change being newly introduced version numbers in the XML. That >> would probably make the saved changes 0.6 compatible then. It might >> break a few applications if we do this but only those who don't do >> proper XML parsing and people who write them are asking for trouble >> anyway. * > > What about introducing an API server that is able to proxy 0.6 using 0.5 > request? Thus having a compatibility layer?
My suggested Perl script is already on the fringe; a compatibility API would be asking for trouble. I can think of a number of scenarios where it would break in a really non-helpful way. It would also send out the (wrong) message that you can painlessly continue not caring for 0.6... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
