[teiid-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (TEIID-3462) Add support for semantic versioning of VDBs

[Steven Hawkins (JIRA)]

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Steven Hawkins commented on TEIID-3462:
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> Change the version field to a string rather than an integer, and allow for the break in backwards compatibility.

While logically straight-forward as I work through it this is a massive change affecting 60+ classes and will break more apis than I had anticipated.

An alternative would be to use a property / file name to indicate the semantic version and to start by simply deprecating the old version field and using the vdb name to convey the fully versioned name when appropriate.

> Add support for semantic versioning of VDBs
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>                 Key: TEIID-3462
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-3462
>             Project: Teiid
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Server
>    Affects Versions: 8.7
>            Reporter: Marc Shirley
>            Assignee: Steven Hawkins
>             Fix For: 9.0
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> Semantic versioning [1] should be supported in the VDB versioning in order to be able to easier determine whether there are breaking changes from the client perspective and to more easily establish a link between client software versions and the VDBs they rely upon.
> [1] http://semver.org/



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