Dear August Forum: Today I noticed a new post on "Inside Clojure" https://insideclojure.org/2020/02/18/lib-version/ , which says, after some thoughtful justification, "we have lots of libraries in the Clojure ecosystem that have been around for many years, are widely used, have stable APIs, and yet are 0.x version. It’s silly for that to be (falsely) indicating to people not to use them, so I have asked Clojure contrib library owners to more actively bump up their library versions."
A 0.x version number is a badge of honor; earned, not bestown. It is one of the things that makes Clojure stand out. Let's not throw it away. If 0.x's -- at org.clojure and beyond -- renumbered themselves as 1.x's, it would set off years of annoying aftershocks as a massive dependency-update churn rippled far and wide. And still, people who don't like quiet would complain, "Clojure is fine, but most of the libraries never got past 1.0." You can't outrun that mob. Stand firm. If complaints about stasis are going to happen, better they happened to 0.x than 1.x. You can at least defend 0.x on principle. In short, I hope maintainers will defer the 0.x to 1.x transition until they must commit a breaking or major change. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/53c37f03-d28a-45e3-9903-d30d0c6b163a%40googlegroups.com.
