[OSM-dev] Data corruption :) II

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Stefan de Konink wrote:
> 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?

My suggested Perl script is already on the fringe; a compatibility API 
would be asking for trouble. I can think of a number of scenarios where 
it would break in a really non-helpful way. It would also send out the 
(wrong) message that you can painlessly continue not caring for 0.6...

Bye
Frederik

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