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

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

if

[–] nickhammes 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

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