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Is there some kind of objective standard for version numbers I’m not aware of? Maybe you could call only LTS versions “major versions” if you wanted.
by emodendroket 3y ago
Is there some kind of objective standard for version numbers I’m not aware of? Maybe you could call only LTS versions “major versions” if you wanted.
- erik_seaberg 3y agoThere’s https://semver.org/ https://semver.org/, which Java unfortunately has not chosen to follow. As joaonmatos pointed out, 8->9 was the most painful major version change, and I think there have been a couple others when deprecated features were (or will be) fully removed.
- emodendroket 3y agoProjects that follow semver in theory often don't actually follow it so why would we expect everyone else to?
- erik_seaberg 3y agoI think the attempt communicates a lot of useful info and succeeds pretty often. I agree they can’t guarantee it, as with any bugs.