What makes an ecosystem '1.x' vs '2.x' etc. needs to be quantifiable to make a standard out of it. To quote Peter Drucker, "What gets measured gets managed." Are there any solid examples of languages that would constitute a good canonical spectrum for ecosystem versions and why?
It seems like if the ecosystem surrounding a language is another concern in the semantic versioning equation that can't be sufficiently be expressed by the existing scheme, there should be a another digit(s) or a whole other semantic version system for it (e.g. 1.2.0.0 or perhaps 0.1.0_2.0.0 for Clojure 2.0 with a basic, whatever that may mean, ecosystem surrounding it.) My points may also be a moot point, since it seems to make this SemVer compatible we might have to call it SemVer 1.1.0, or 2.0 depending on how people thought the extra digit(s) would affect the compatibility with the SemVer spec as it stands. (Is it SemVer 1.0.0 right now?) All this being said, I like the idea of semantic versioning and I wish more languages/software at least attempted some sort of version number scheme transparency. #(+ 1 %) to semantic versioning. TL;DR Can an ecosystem be properly versioned? Can that version be cleanly expressed by the current SemVer scheme? -- 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
