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Moniker schema versioning

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
tooling

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the LSIF metadata and Moniker.scheme concepts, along with the related discussion in #10. Done means reaching and documenting a decision on whether schema versions belong in metadata and how mismatches should be detected.

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Description

feature-request

As the languages evolve and/or exporter defects are fixed, we may end up in situations where we want to revise the schema used for monikers. LSIF exporters can trivially achieve that by appending a version number to Moniker.scheme value.

Changing the moniker schema would render old LSIF dumps incompatible (unlinkable) with newer LSIF dumps though.

Should then the moniker schema version be a high level concept that is advertised in LSIF metadata so tools can detect mismatches more effectively?

(Note that #10 discussed similar but actually different question about embedding the source code package version in the moniker.)

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TypeScript
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Merged PRs (30d)
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