Re: [h5md-user] File format versioning

[Konrad Hinsen]

Felix Höfling writes:

 > One may also take a different point of view and come to another conclusion  
 > about what backwards-compatibility in the context of a file format means.  
 > I have detailed this earlier, but the discussion was only between Pierre  
 > and me, see eg:
 > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.simulation.h5md.user/657

That's certainly a valid point of view as well. Before deciding on
version numbers, we need to decide on what "backwards-compatible"
means, and say so clearly in the documentation.

Fundamentally, my point of view is "change what you want, but document
everything clearly". That's more important for me than semantic versioning,
which, as you say, does not have a clear meaning for file formats.

Konrad.
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