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2011/10/11 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>:
> I think the versioning rules below are fine, but there are some other
> things to think about:
>
>  - As others raised, what version (if any) should be in the URIs?
>
>   We could put the full version number in the URIs so long as we
>   maintain support for the older, compatible versions i.e. the current
>   version is 1.5.3 but clients can still use the 1.4.0, 1.5.2 etc. URIs
>
>   The only problem I see with that is that it might appear like
>   clients connecting to the 1.4.0 URI should expect only the features
>   that were available in 1.4.0.

Why is that a problem? That seems entirely reasonable to me. If a
client is written for an old version of the API how would it even know
to look for these new concepts/features?

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