Ok, thanks a lot for this info: didn't know that ;)
Now it's much clearer: just had to reconfigure server in order to kindly 
ask older version users to update to the new version, thus giving minimal 
downtime period.

Thanks a lot.
Cheers,
Iacopo


On Sunday, September 23, 2012 8:53:26 PM UTC+2, alex wrote:
>
> I probably wasn't clear. 
>
> latest.myapp.appspot.com always points to the, well, latest deployed 
> *default* version. Say, if you have deployed awesome.myapp.appspot.com 
> and make it default version, then accessing latest.myapp.appspot.com 
> will actually route internally to awesome.myapp.appspot.com anyway. 
> It's like an alias. 
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:43 PM, alex <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Upload a new version, e.g. "mynewawesomeversion" and set the default 
> > to that so that users will access your app at myapp.appspot.com (or a 
> > custom domain) and not latest.myapp.appspot.com. It's the best 
> > approach, I believe. "latest" has a special meaning for app versions 
> > routing. 
> > 
> > If you have some changes that you can't make backward compatible with 
> > mobile client, you could always do something like 
> > myapp.appspot.com/v1/... and /v2/... I believe it's much better than 
> > making your mobile client connect to a specific version-based 
> > subdomain. 
> > 
> > -- alex 
> > 
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Iaco86 <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> >> I can't do that, since i need to update the version that is called 
> *latest*. 
> >> If i try doing that, by setting the version to *latest* in my yaml 
> file, 
> >> even if the version *latest* already exists, the server replies i can't 
> have 
> >> a version called *latest*. 
> >> 
> >> Moreover the default version (version called *1*) serves an older 
> version of 
> >> my app that still has a couple of users. 
> >> 
> >> On Sunday, September 23, 2012 8:20:46 PM UTC+2, alex wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> You can always set the *default* to whatever version you have 
> >>> deployed. What's wrong with that? 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Iaco86 <[email protected]> wrote: 
> >>> > Hi everyone, 
> >>> > I have a version of my python appengine server that is named 
> "latest". 
> >>> > This 
> >>> > is the version used by the web applications that interface with the 
> >>> > service. 
> >>> > 
> >>> > Now it looks like I can't update anymore the version, since Google 
> >>> > suddently 
> >>> > decided that "latest" is not a valid version name anymore... 
> >>> > Can anyone tell me why? Since I use the server for a mobile app, I 
> will 
> >>> > have 
> >>> > a 10 days blackout on my app, since the server is not working 
> anymore 
> >>> > and i 
> >>> > can't update it anymore. 
> >>> > I will therefore have to deploy a new version of the server, with a 
> >>> > different name, deploy a new version of my mobile application and 
> wait 
> >>> > for 
> >>> > it to be certified. 
> >>> > 
> >>> > Why couldn't google allow the version name anymore????? It is 
> causing a 
> >>> > major hassle + lot of negative votes on the market.... 
> >>> > 
> >>> > Thanks for replies. 
> >>> > 
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