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Re: [hybi] Versioning is a anti-pattern

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Thu, 02 September 2010 18:25 UTC

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

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