From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Semver (was: Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...?) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:11:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sg147b7g.fsf@yandex.com> <87sg12ocse.fsf@cock.li> <87o8bp9e72.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26043"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:luboolSdNHyYM3CRWh+BPHWnOIE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 30 00:12:26 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lyLxx-0006g3-Pq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:12:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36010 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lyLxw-0004av-GZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44780) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lyLxP-0004ad-C5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:11:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:43070) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lyLxN-0007a3-L5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:11:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lyLxL-0005xB-Bn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:11:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131350 Archived-At: [ Retitled to clarify we're not talking about Emacs versions. ] > Yes, major.minor.patch is what I've heard, I guess > major.minor.micro is more logical but it is always (sometimes) > good with a style change at the end, it makes it > more interesting. > > The problem with this scheme is where do you draw the line > between these three things, exactly? It's simple and clear: - "micro/patch" changes preserve both forward and backward compatibility. - "minor" changes break forward compatible but not backward compatibility. - "major" changes break both forward and backward compatibility. Stefan