[Freeipa-devel] Designing better API compatibility

[Rob Crittenden]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 15:30 +0100, Petr Spacek wrote:
>> On 20.3.2015 14:19, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>> This is not sufficient, older 3.3 and 4.x servers can't be changed and
>>> we MUST be compatible with those.
>>> Basically the plan MUST work with already released servers, this is a
>>> constraint that cannot be releaxed, please work within this limitations.
>>
>> Currently new clients do not work with older servers, right?
>>
>> Maybe we should do one more (last!) release like that and do a big cut after
>> that. It would make the design so much easier if the new (supposedly thin)
>> client does not need to support ancient servers which had only 'fat' clients.
> 
> People are using 3.3 and 4.1 now, we want to support them too, whatever
> it takes.
> For future clients we can do whatever fancy automated thin client and
> what not, and in time drop support for very old releases, but 3.3 and <
> 4.2 are going to be around for quite a while and we need to support
> those server in the clients.

I think 3.0 should be the baseline. It will around another few years at
least.

rob