On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 02:07:15PM +0000, Rob Wilton (rwilton) wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> There are many ways to write and design compilers.
> 
> Compilers that don’t understand import-by-semver just ignore the extension, 
> no deviation is required.  They just import whichever arbitrary revision that 
> they would have imported anyway, as specified by YANG 1.1.  The 
> import-by-semver statement just reduces the set of valid modules revisions 
> that can be used for import.
>

If two compilers (one supporting semver, the other not) resolve
imports differently, then the design is in my view somewhat broken,
in particular if you allow NBC changes.

/js

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