[OSM-dev] Data corruption :) II

Stefan de Konink stefan at konink.de
Mon Nov 24 13:57:24 GMT 2008


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?


Stefan




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