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Semver isn't the one and only way of versioning stuff. Heck, it's a pretty ridiculous model for projects that do releases based on time rather than features...

• Touche 12y ago
  Sure, my point was not that semver is the best, my point was that version numbers aren't a product name, they should be scientific. Whether it's semver or date-based, as long as it obeys rules so that people using your product can easily distinguish versions.
  • palmer_eldritch 12y ago
    > version numbers aren't a product name, they should be scientific That's your opinion. It seems there's a lot of people in the software industry with a different opinion. I'm not saying it isn't a good thing when version numbers are meaningful. But that's not always the case and even when it's the case, you'd better check what it means for a particular project. There's no generic "scientific" rule about version numbers.