[Freeipa-devel] API version conflict

[Petr Viktorin]

On 07/04/2014 03:20 PM, Martin Basti wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 15:13 +0200, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>> On 4.7.2014 13:34, Martin Basti wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I need increase version number in ipa-3-3 branch to 2.66, but 2.66 is
>>> already used in ipa-master branch (2.66 Add support for managing user
>>> auth types). Fortunately it is very minor change so If I don't increase
>>> the version nothing happens.
>>>
>>> How to solve this problem? Don't increase the version number in ipa-3-3
>>> anymore (?)
>>>
>>> If we will increase the IPA-3 API version to number which hits a IPA-4
>>> capability, it could break communication between ipa3-client and
>>> ipa4-server.
>>>
>>> Should we try increase the major version sometimes?
>>>
>>
>> Would 2.66.1 work?
>>
>
> IMO 2.65.1, 2.65.2, .. 2.65.x  and never reach 2.66, but I dont know is
> this possible in framework?
>

The versions are (supposed to be) compared with version.LooseVersion, so 
this should work.
There may be a case where it would break, but if we need this in ipa-3-3 
it would be worth it to test.


Of course, backporting new capabilities to older versions would still be 
impossible in this scheme.

-- 
Petr³