[news.eclipse.technology.kepler] Re: Versioning the models

[Philip Dodds <philip.dodds@xxxxxxxxx>]

I suppose its the old question of versioning the root element or 
versioning the schema.  I was just curious as to the impact on the 
parsing of versioning the schema?

Cheers

P

On 2007-08-28 06:56:54 -0400, Carlos Sanchez <carlos.sanchez@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> if you version the model you will have to version the schema anyway,
> because if you change something in the schema you don't want it to be
> applied to old models
>
> Philip Dodds wrote:
> > so the schema namespace would therefore contain the version ie.
> > http://www.eclipse.org/kepler/project/model/1.0
> >
> > So if you are using EMF how does this work - do you need to have a
> > different generated code for each version?  so that you can load
> > different versions and then "upgrade" the older versions?
> >
> > Welcome back by the way ;)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > P
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2007-08-27 13:41:22 -0400, Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx> said:
> >
> > > I think that since the model is described by a schema, the schema
> > > should be versioned, not the model. Implies of course that any
> > > instance of the model contains correct xmlns attributes.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Thomas Hallgren
> > >
> > > Philip Dodds wrote:
> > > > I was looking at the models that we have started to add for the core
> > > > structure of the project meta-data at
> > > > http://wiki.eclipse.org/Kepler_Schema_project-core
> > > >
> > > > I was thinking that we should probably add a model version attribute
> > > > to the project element and also to the facet's so that we can handle
> > > > changes in the core model in the tooling.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts ?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > >
> > > > P