Support multiple spec versions

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Support multiple spec versions

nscuro opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

Supporting only the latest spec version drastically limits upgradability and may break some workflows. We should support all versions, as well as converting between them. While the CLI certainly can do that too, this library should able to do it as well.

Will have to make sure that spec version specific package names are compatible with Go's major versioning strategies, see https://blog.golang.org/v2-go-modules

Niklas · Answer 1 · Wed Aug 11 2021 20:27:50 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Another solution could be to release a new major version everytime the supported spec version is incremented.

Niklas · Answer 2 · Mon Sep 26 2022 06:05:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Implemented in #51. Instead of introducing separate models for every spec version, or solving this via versioning of the module itself, we now "downgrade" the BOM before encoding it if necessary.

This makes working with the model a lot simpler.