I'm +1 on this, particularly since I'm at fault for not pushing on the VR
as much as I'd like to.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Matthew Turk
Hi all,
One thing we really tried to do with 3.0 was break all the APIs we thought we'd need to before release. This included things like ds/pf, index/hierarchy, the way data selections were made, etc.
It's starting to become clear that we are approaching maturity at different rates in these initiatives. I am wondering if perhaps we should de-couple the release from all of the API breakages, and instead note which interfaces we know are going to change in the future.
Pragmatically, what this would mean is:
* Release a 3.0 with the old VR and halo finding interfaces * Release a 3.1 with either the new VR or the new halo finding (or both) * Do the same for 3.2
This doesn't fit with the usual "major numbers are where APIs break" philosophy that comes from semantic versioning, but I think from the perspective of pragmatism, if we identify those sections of the code that are *going* to change, and we pitch 3.0 as the first part of a staged release of totally rewritten infrastructure, we can likely come out okay.
I'd like to put this out there for discussion.
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