I use a strict interpretation of the versioning convention. Here is my decision process… Can you take an Eclipse installation with the previous version of your project where all dependencies only use your public API, update it to the new version and have the installation continue to function. The answer in the case of a BREE bump, is “maybe”, so the major version bump is required.
I know that many projects bump BREE without a major version bump. Platform even has a complex rubric where certain level of API-breaking changes are ok in a release without a major version bump. Projects are choosing this path for developer convenience reason, but risk breaking user installations in the process. They are all doing it wrong. :)
Regarding DTP 2 in particular, the BREE bump is just the first of the breaking changes in this release. The next target are the features. DTP features could use a round of consolidation and refactoring. They are far too many of them and they don’t break DTP into components that are useful to the user.
Thanks,
- Konstantin
From: Ed Merks
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2015 5:12 AM
To: cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] DTP major version bump for Neon
Kaloyan,
No, a client that has compiled against your current version remains binary compatible with your new version. No need to recompile or change their code. They just can't run anymore unless they satisfy the highest BREE of all their requirements. The version increment should reflect changes in the APIs and implementations. I think a BREE change just implies a content change which implies a micro version increment.
Cheers,
Ed
On 24/10/2015 11:55 AM, Kaloyan Raev wrote:
Hi,
Does moving to Java 8 justify the bump of the major version? Many projects update their BREE without updating their major version.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Konstantin Komissarchik <konstantin.komissarchik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DTP will soon contribute v2 to Neon aggregation stream. The current version is 1.12.1. The reason for the major version bump is the move to requiring Java 8. All DTP plugins and features will get a major version bump.
I recommend all consuming projects to prepare for this ahead of time by relaxing the version ranges.
Thanks,
- Konstantin
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