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> Personally I’m quite satisfied with it, it takes a decent understanding of semver to produce a case this finely balanced on the edge of two technicalities, wh
by avgcorrection 4y ago
> Personally I’m quite satisfied with it, it takes a decent understanding of semver to produce a case this finely balanced on the edge of two technicalities, which gives me the impression of being playful with semver rather than disrespecting, or being unaware of, semver. YMMV
What?
> > We decided it was about time to reset the minor number down to more a manageable level and doing it exactly on curl’s 25th birthday made it extra fun. There is no API nor ABI break in this version.
Intentions-wise this has nothing to do with the Venerable SemVer.
- fwlr 4y agoThey wanted to move to 8.0.0 on curl’s 25th birthday, so they made the smallest possible breaking change they could (changing which environments curl can build in), thus justifying a major version bump.
- avgcorrection 4y ago“There is no API nor ABI break in this version.”, he wrote.