I'd definitely agree with the consistency principle. On 15 December 2016 at 01:38, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2016-12-14, Matt Sicker wrote: > > > When it comes to version numbers, I'm more concerned about following > > semantic versioning than whether or not it's a major release. Bugfixes > > warrant micro version updates, while new features warrant minor version > > updates (and backward incompatible API changes are for the major > version). > > I'm not sure how Ivy has decided on its version numbers in the past, but > for Ant we've never followed semantic versioning that strictly. In > particular we've created lots of micro releases that contained new > features and most of the time created minor versions when we changed JDK > requirements. In a sense we've shifted semantic versioning to the right > and never created major releases (and neither pure bugfix releases), > maybe because Ant2 could bring up some ghosts of the far past. :-) > > As much as I like semantic versioning (and use it in other projects), > I'd prefer to stay consistent with the way versions have been used in > prior releases. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
