• akamar@feddit.cl
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    6 months ago

    Why not SemVer? It would look so simple and logical. I don’t need to know the release year as an user, stability and convenience is what I looking for. I can decide, update this thing it not, just by looking at major version number, but date tells me nothing about backward compatibility

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      6 months ago

      but date tells me nothing about backward compatibility

      The date IS the major/minor version. Knowing when the thing was released is bonus metadata. A lot of people find it useful.

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        6 months ago

        Okay, so be it. I want to emphasize that the purpose of numbering has shifted from technical to marketing. For development purposes, it was better before.