• h54@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    but date tells me nothing about backward compatibility

    The date IS the major/minor version. Knowing when the thing was released is bonus metadata. A lot of people find it useful.

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      6 months ago

      Okay, so be it. I want to emphasize that the purpose of numbering has shifted from technical to marketing. For development purposes, it was better before.

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        6 months ago

        Doesn’t help that the date based release looks a lot like semantic versioning which a confusing a lot of people. Should’ve just used Ubuntu’s standard of ‘yy.mm’ instead of ‘yy.m’