Why not simply _add_ a version / revision object in the file?

After a while, deprecated, unsupported versions can be deleted.


Ran.

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 15:23 Daniel Ruoso via SG15 <sg15_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 02:36 Iain Sandoe via SG15 <sg15_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
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>> - A "current version" and a “minimum supported version", which means
>> that this manifest would be a correct representation for a tool supporting
>> “minimum supported version” (but might have some improved capability for
>> later tools, supporting "current version").
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> The version in this case refers to the version of the schema.
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> That should indicate what fields are expected to be present, which fields
> are optional, and what is the semantics of those fields
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> - A clear rule that says how a tool supporting minimum but not current is
>> to skip the data it does not recognise (and a mechanism for organising
>> content that allows this).
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> The general expectation, as we discussed on the context of compatibility
> for the Ecosystem IS, is that if the file has a new revision on the same
> version, a tool that knows about an older revision should be able to parse
> that file with the correct semantics while ignoring the fields it doesn't
> know about.
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> That limits what kinds of changes can be done to the schema in a revision
> increment.
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> If a change is not possible while maintaining that compatibility, then it
> would need to be a new major version, and therefore the tool that doesn't
> understand that version will not be able to process the file.
>
> Daniel
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