[glue-wg] New types

[stephen.burke at stfc.ac.uk]

> Usually I would say not - we have the InterfaceVersion for that. For
> example SRM v1 and v2 are incompatible, but both have a Name of SRM. I
> think they should only have different names if they're really
> fundamentally different.

Also, think about future compatibility as well as the past - even if gram 5 is totally different to any previous gram, could there be a gram 6 which is backward-compatible? If so you'd have to keep calling it gram5 which wouldn't be very elegant ...

Stephen

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