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Re: [hybi] Versioning is a anti-pattern

Hector Santos <hsantos@isdg.net> Thu, 02 September 2010 18:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Versioning is a anti-pattern
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+1

Tim Bray wrote:
> Versioning requres you to make all sorts of REALLY HARD choices, and runs
> the risk of imposing really onerous costs on implementors.  Thus, you need
> to be really convinced that there are really significant benefits before you
> embark on this difficult and risky course of action.  -Tim
> 
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Adam Barth wrote:
>>
>>  Please don't add versioning to the protocol.  Versioning is a anti-pattern
>>> for the web.
>>>
>> We've seen this mentioned before on this list but without a lot of
>> clarifications and I'm curious:
>>
>> What are the other transfer protocols for which versioning have failed so
>> significantly that versioning in protocols can be called an anti-pattern?
>>
>> Or isn't it so that it truly is an anti-pattern for the *web* (with the
>> emphasis added on the web word) and we're not really doing web here, we're
>> discussing a transfer protocol.
>>
>> HTTP is the primary "web protocol" and AFAIK, its versioning is usually not
>> considered a failure.
>>
>> --
>>
>>  / daniel.haxx.se
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