the account formerly known as LunaPeople assume that software versioning is a strict progression of monotonically increasing numbers, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of...wibbly-wobbly...versiony-wersiony...stuff.
Ronflaix@luna And like the character you're referencing, they tend to evolve, or regenerate if I may say, over time
Hana Dusíková 🏳️🌈@luna second_draft_final2_update_tweek_really_final_v3.doc
@luna recently I was asked to settle versioning of an experimental library with semver, because _it makes sense_
since then I have currently 1.0-142.dev
Pär Björklund@hanadusikova major.minor.patch.build-branch-tag-randomstring-MakeItStop
Andreas Grois@luna My favorite versioning scheme is the one used by TeX: It's currently at version 3.141592653
FishBulbish 🏳️⚧️@luna easy solution, fork a project, forget to merge your tweaks for a month, then realize that if you merged your absurd personal preference tweaks you would look like an asshole, and rm -rf it all
zneix@luna oh yeah, on this topic... we've been recently discussing a patch adding proper version checks to our application and one contributor has found this glorious regex with so many wicked examples: https://regex101.com/r/Ly7O1x/3/
I would never suspect some of them to be a valid semver... x)
I would never suspect some of them to be a valid semver... x)
