[erlang-questions] [ANN] samovar 1.0.0

[PAILLEAU Eric]

Hello,

I was currently writing something equivalent than your mail below, for 
Max remarks.
I'm not saying that SEMVER is alpha (or 1.0.0-alpha ;>) ...) and omega .
Erlang ecosystem is using semver or something very close.
I didn't found libraries for this or very few documented ones.

As any human action, setting version number on a project is not error 
proof ; but any version scheme have this problem.
I think this could be automatized by a tool in order to propose a 
version change by comparing current code to former one.
Exported functions, function specifications could help to propose a 
major or minor or patch change.

I was using CVS in the old times. I loved the $Id$ tag expanding to CVS 
version of the file while commiting.
How many people here forgot once to change the .app.src file before 
releasing ?
Semver versioning or a project should not be handled by human but 
probably helped by AI.

BTW, semver itself is currently 2.0.0 with a low risk of any major 
change that breaks compatibility, but always possible ...

Regards




Le 15/09/2019 à 09:55, Paul Oliver a écrit :
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 6:05 AM Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED 
> <mailto:max.lapshin@REDACTED>> wrote:
> 
>     We have completely refused from semver, because it seems to be
>     hardly useable today.
> 
>     Main reason is that nowadays nobody want to make major releases each
>     1,5 year with large changes, big migration path and 1,2 years of
>     pain after each big release.
> 
>     Features are split into small steps and slowly implemented in
>     services, softwares, libraries, etc.
> 
>     So it is too hard to say when 0.9.999-pre15-beta17 becomes 1.0.0.
> 
> 
>     Ubuntu lives with YY.MM <http://YY.MM> and it is very convenient. 
>     Firefox and Chrome just give some release number without
>     major/minor/patch.
> 
>     I'm afraid that semantic versioning is not where modern software
>     development practice is going.
>     _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> The ecosystems I'm familiar with have all aligned on semver or something 
> very close to it. I'd be interested to know of one that hasn't.
> 
> Python: 
> https://packaging.python.org/guides/distributing-packages-using-setuptools/#semantic-versioning-preferred
> Rust: 
> https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html#the-version-field
> Beam: 
> https://hex.pm/docs/publish#adding-metadata-to-code-classinlinemixexscode
> 

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