[LRUG] Encapsulation/Responsibility delegation and API versioning.

[Damian Janowski]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ian Leitch <port001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I'm working on a Rails API that's the backend for an iPhone app. Given
> that I'll have no control over when a user maybe choose to up upgrade
> to the latest version of the app, I'm taking steps to ensure that each
> of my API versions are very much self-contained. When I need to bump
> the version, i'll simply duplicate the controllers.

Not that I actually tried this, but why not keeping your versions as
Git branches?

/v1 runs branch v1, /v2 runs branch v2.

If bugs are found, you can fix them on v2 and backport if necessary to
v1. Similar to any other software project.

Makes sense?