[openstack-dev] [nova] Future of the Nova API

Christopher Yeoh cbkyeoh at gmail.com
Wed Feb 26 22:29:51 UTC 2014


On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:28:20 -0800
Dan Smith <dms at danplanet.com> wrote:
> 
> > If we do go down this route of changing the v2 API like this, it
> > would be nice to bump the minor version as well, so when a user has
> > to distinguish between the two versions they don't have to say
> > Havana V2 vs Icehouse V2, they can just say v2.1.
> 
> Yes, I'm totally all for introducing versioning into v2. Definitely.

So if we make backwards incompatible changes we really need a major
version bump. Minor versions don't cut it, because the expectation is
you have API stability within a major version.

How much do we like it when python libraries change semantic meaning
of methods or remote methods with just a minor library version
increment?

Chris



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