From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Roadmap for =?utf-8?Q?Guix=C2=A01=2E0?= Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 13:11:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87tvnqipal.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878t5udq9u.fsf@gnu.org> <871sbls435.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frLcb-0007nE-3X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 07:11:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frLca-00046v-JK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 07:11:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <871sbls435.fsf@gmail.com> (Chris Marusich's message of "Sun, 29 Jul 2018 22:08:30 -0700") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Chris Marusich Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Chris, Chris Marusich skribis: > At the moment, I only have this to add: It would be nice if we could > decide on how we will use version numbers going forward and publish a > description of that in the manual or on the website. > > I think the important thing is that we publish a description. The > details of it are less important. We can use Semantic Versioning [1], > Sentimental Versioning [2], or something totally different. As long as > we publish our decision and stick to it, everyone will know what to > expect. Good point! The difficulty here is that Guix is effectively a large collection of libraries, which makes it hard to map it to the semver story, I think. Or to put it differently, we should map to semver in an =E2=80=9Cabstract way=E2=80=9D: what semver refers to as =E2=80=9CAPI chang= es=E2=80=9D would rather be important CLI/API changes. Thoughts? Ludo=E2=80=99.