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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Gary Poster wrote:
> 
>> - Leonard is wrapping up "webservice version 1.0," which shows that we can
>> - now support different simultaneous versions.  This means we can support
>> - released applications, such as apport, while continuing to improve our API
>> - in backwards incompatible ways.  1.0 is very slightly cleaned up version of
>> - the long-standing "beta" service (which, despite its name, is now also
>> - frozen, because released applications depend on it).  Versions will remain
>> - supported until the Ubuntu release that uses it becomes unsupported.
> 
> Hi Gary, Leonard,
> 
> How will the API's version numbers track or match up with Ubuntu release?

Good question.  I made a wiki page.

https://dev.launchpad.net/Foundations/Webservice

> Will there be a new API version for every Ubuntu release?  

In the future, probably.  Historically, no: everything has been "beta".

Gary

> Is there a wiki
> page on dev.lp.net that documents the mapping?
> 
> -Barry
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