[erlang-questions] [ANN] samovar 1.0.0

[Siraaj Khandkar]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 2:51 PM Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> On 14/09/2019 20:42, Siraaj Khandkar wrote:> 0.9.999-pre15-beta17
> becomes 1.0.0 as soon as any other software
> > package relies on it as a dependency.
>
> Wishful thinking.
>
> In practice those other packages will happily rely on software that
>      is far from ready for general consumption, let alone documented.
>
> Even if you depend on an 1.0.0 library, if it's not documented then you
> don't have any way of knowing what is considered internal and might
> break in the future.
>
> Semver is a useful tool but it doesn't guarantee much on its own.

Of course. We can write fiction in any language. To know facts,
scientific method is still needed :) Yet, language is still immensely
useful!