On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 13:09:19 UTC, Leandro Lucarella
wrote:
There is a fairly popular de-facto standard for versioning:
semver. Yes,
it is incompatible with Debian (and I guess FreeBSD) but you
can make
it compatible by just changing one character ("-" -> "~").
Since apparently a version naming scheme is needed, does anyone
have
a good reason NOT to use a standard that's easily adaptable to
several
popular distributions?
As Jacob already said, we will either need to go back to a major
of 0, or improve our major number almost everytime there is a
release.
