• Orvanis@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    In all seriousness, is the Dev using the build date as the version number…? July 8th, 2023 at 12:34am - vYY.MM.DD-HH.mm

    Unusual approach for sure as you have no clue if it is a major version change or minor bug fixes.

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      1 year ago

      Using the date as a version number for an application that gets frequent updates is very standard. Most users will be expected to be on the latest version always.

      There’s even a website for it https://calver.org

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        1 year ago

        Thank you for the web link, TIL it is much more common than I was aware!

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          Generally speaking, I find it easier and more intuitive to use. We use calver at work bc it seems pointless to identify if every week’s release is major / minor / patch etc. My thought is the latest is the greatest - if something goes wrong, it’ll be fixed in a later version ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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        Interesting, I always found semantic versioning pretty useless, except for knowing that a new major release breaks existing APIs

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          It’s great to get a quick context of the size of the change expected. That does require the developer numbering the release to appropriately version it though.