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Breaking Changes in Lemmy 1.0 (join-lemmy.org)

submitted 11 months ago by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/announcements@lemmy.ml

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A lot of these should not be called breaking changes. A new API is not a breaking change if the old API remains.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

if

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but those changes break clients as soon as they turn down the old API.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago

Indeed, dropping the old API would be the breaking change.

Rich Hickey did a fantastic talk on versioning, breaking changes, and dependencies.