[Cython] Cython 0.29 – or 29.0 ?

Yury V. Zaytsev yury at shurup.com
Fri Aug 17 04:59:51 EDT 2018


On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, James C. McPherson wrote:

>
> 1.0 runs the risk of hitting "never install a 1.0 release" habits.

How about 2.9.0 ;-) ?

> Jumping to 29.0 would not, imnsho, be such an issue because people are 
> used to the rapid cadence of Firefox, Thunderbird and Chrome releases. 
> The flip side of 29.0 would be the question "when are you announcing 
> your LTS version?"

That, and I second that non-semver, and particularly this browser-style 
versioning is very annoying for the packagers. What's worse though, is 
when a project moves from semver to browser-style, then to date-based, and 
then back again >:-| So, whatever you choose, please choose wisely...

0.02 €

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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev


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