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[Jorge Williams <jorge.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 10, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Todd Willey wrote:

> Would adding new fields into a response bump the minor version number
> and not the major?  In that case, knowing the exact version would be
> nice.  

What we're thinking here is that if you add a new field you should also expose an extension that denotes that field exists.  You can always detect whether the extension is present or not.  There shouldn't be a change in the version number because the change is backward compatible.

Extensions should be self-documenting. It's important that we have good specific documentation for each individual extension.

-jOrGe W.



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