[dsdp-tcf-dev] Re: TCF communication protocol versioning

[Martin Oberhuber <martin.oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas,

there is a plan to version the TCF Protocol Specification in a
fine granular way. Felix Burton has the action item to do that:

  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=269352

I just created the bug for tracking the effort, but we did discuss it on 
the TCF Round Table meeting recently:

  http://wiki.eclipse.org/DSDP/TCF/Meetings/March_12_2009_Round_Table

Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm




Thomas Emil Hansen wrote:
> What is the version of the TCF communication protocol specified in 
> http://dsdp.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/tcf/docs/TCF%20Specification.html ?
>
> Is there a way, or planned a way, to have versioning as part of the 
> protocol itself? For example, it could be possible for the PC side to 
> request the target for the version used.
>
> Or the target could be allowed to use various versions of the procotol 
> in parallel, and the PC side would know, for example by looking at the 
> message header, which version the message belongs to. This would make 
> really good sense if different parts of the target is delievered from 
> different vendors, each implementing different versions of the protocol 
> (you can't expect everyone to upgrade at the same time).