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I'm pretty sure they mean "API" in its true sense. An API for a module or a library, not necessarily a Web API. It's not unusual for an organization to mainta
by dudul 9y ago
I'm pretty sure they mean "API" in its true sense. An API for a module or a library, not necessarily a Web API. It's not unusual for an organization to maintain several projects/libraries/services that interact internally via their APIs (sometimes over HTTP, sometimes directly as a library), SemVer makes perfect sense for this use case.
- SimonPStevens 9y agoYeah, which is fine if that's what you do. You can take 'public' to have whatever meaning works for you. I'm talking about places that try and apply SemVer to their consumer facing product, that has no API. That doesn't make sense.
- fenomas 9y agoThey mean API in the sense of anything that someone can declare a dependency against. Whether it's a web service or a library is immaterial; the point of the thing is to be able to update something and formally tell any downstream dependencies whether the update breaks compatibility or not.