RFC: Do not touch versions you do not know policy (was: Re: KEP 2: Modification of datetime type, introduction of 'tz' sub-tag)

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 06:35:19 pm Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
> Hi Gunnar,
> 
> On Monday 29 November 2010 21.14:41 Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> > The requirement makes sense. I actually only noticed because I checked
> > the Kolab_Format code, realized that such a check was missing,
> > considered that a bug and started logging a new issue. Just when I
> > wanted to link the relevant format section I realized there was no
> > paragraph requiring this check.
> 
> Maybe it *should* be made explicit, then.
> 
> I wonder: Are there clients out there that follow this approach already?
> 

If the version we are talking about is the Kolab XML object type definition 
version (e.g. <event version="1.0">), then I'm afraid the entire version 
attribute is not used anywhere.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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