On Oct 14, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Craig Maynard <chmaynard at icloud.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure what semantic versioning says about this
semver.org is not a very long page. Spec point 2 covers this: it does not allow empty X, Y, or Z components. > why not just drop the trailing .0 and call the release 3.9? That seems > cleaner and emphasizes the fact that this is a new minor version. It also makes version numbers harder to automatically parse, which is part of the point of semver. If all software used semver, your OS?s package manager could tell you about version incompatibilities, instead of leaving it to the linker or runtime.