[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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The approaches for this look like:

-Change the version field to a string rather than an integer, and allow for the break in backwards compatibility.
- Add major/minor/micro version as fields and deprecate the version integer (make it just the major version) and try to retain some compatibility.  Although we would need to add duplicate admin methods ect. to allow for the full version to be specified.
- Use a property to drive whether the version is encoded for example 10 bits for each part with some alternative logic for displaying the version.

The first is by far the simplest and the reason for pushing this to 9.0, but if anyone wants to make the case for a more backwards compatibly scenario, let me know.

> Add support for semantic versioning of VDBs
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 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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