Semantic Versioning. Tom Preston-Werner provides a name, specification and URL describing the relatively widely used Major.Minor.Patch versioning system. This is really useful—by giving something a name and a spec, people can say “this project uses semantic versioning” and skip having to explain their backwards compatibility policy in full.
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Yeah. I've always loved the concept of "specs all the way down."
Ryan Tomayko - 15th December 2009 23:59 - #