[rabbitmq-discuss] client and server versioning

[Juhani Ränkimies]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Ben Hood<0x6e6562 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Juhani,
>
> On 8/3/09, Ben Hood <0x6e6562 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Juhani,
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Juhani Ränkimies<juhani at juranki.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Am I asking for trouble if I follow erlang-client default branch and
>>> keep the server at 1.6.0?
>>> I'd be using network connection.
>>
>> Until the Erlang client is officially released, following the default
>> branch of the client is pretty much your only reasonably stable
>> option. Given that you can now build loadable bundles for the modules
>> specific to the client and for the shared modules and your client is
>> running in a different VM, you should fair well.
>
> You have probably realized by now that what I said previously is a
> complete lie. Whilst we are trying to target Erlang server-client
> release synchronicity for 1.7, we've taken the opportunity to refactor
> the API a bit in the last week or so - I think Matthew pointed this
> out at some point as well.
>
> Ben
>

No problem, I noticed Matthew's mail and chose to keep the real app at 1.6.0.
I track the api changes by keeping a toy app in sync with the default branch.

-juhani