16 Sep
2003
16 Sep
'03
1:05 p.m.
Curtis Villamizar wrote:
Transition issues are very important in a RR. You have to assume that old software will be around for quite a long time. Someone is bound to be using old code for a very long time.
I'm not disputing that. What I am suggesting is that if there was a version number (say) negotiation mechanism then new code could negotiate for support of new features with a server but without this a new server would return old style data (which will avoid the old code barfing). Mark.