[OSM-dev] Are object versions always continuous?

Serge Wroclawski emacsen at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 04:17:38 GMT 2011


On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> I recommend not relying on this though. The reason for this recommendation
> is that Data Working Group at one time discussed what we called an
> "interdiction API" that would allow us to mark certain versions of objects
> as being unsuitable for distribution. It would be possible to "interdict"
> for example version 3 of an object, leaving the downloader with v1, v2, v4,
> v5.

I'm sure this could turn into a legal-talk thread easily, but since
this behavior is different than the current one, and the docs are
ambiguous, I might recommend some kind of (maybe minor) version bump
for this change of the API.

- Serge



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