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- Subject: Re: Is Lua versioning compliant with semantic versioning
- From: Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@...>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:00:36 +0000
On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 22:06, Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
> I am watching a talk on CMake - and one of the things the presenter is
> talking about (or recommending) is semantic versioning (semver.org).
> Made me think that Lua's numbering is not compliant
It is clearly not compliant.
> if a minor release
> is meant to be signify full backward compatibility.
Semantic versioning doesn't define what compatible means. So all it
does is create expectations that will later be broken. That's just
trolling (albeit a insidious form of it).
