On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:49:36AM -0700, Jarrod Overson wrote:
> From a non-perl-centric viewpoint, the vast majority of projects I work
> with nowadays abide by the semantic versioning concept (your v4) :
>
> http://semver.org/
>
> You lose the version's value as an actual number, but you gain more
> standard readability as to what the version means, which is something that
> I consider more valuable.
You lose that the moment someone decides to rename Linux 2.6.bignum to
3.0 for no good reason. So really, no matter what the ideal, in
practice it doesn't mean a damned thing.
--
David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice
When one has bathed in Christ there is no need to bathe a second time
-- St. Jerome, on why washing is a vile pagan practice
in a letter to Heliodorus, 373 or 374 AD
