I’ve been working on (yet another) Lemmy app for the fun of it but I had a question come to mind with the new v0.18.0 announcement.

Since it is up to the instance admins to update the server, how should Client developers handle instances across Lemmy having different API version numbers with potential incompatibilities?

There are a few existing libraries but it seems the change from v0.17.4 to v0.18.0 is proving cumbersome for at least one library and most likely others as well.

Any thoughts?

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have no idea how they are currently doing it, but in app development, it’s quite common to add the api version into the api call and use that within a client app. You just make sure the major versions are covered and then have a minimum version you support. It will heavily depend on if the app makers support sysver or not.