dmd 2.065 beta 1 #2

[Mathias LANG]

On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 13:09:19 UTC, Leandro Lucarella 
wrote:
> There is a fairly popular de-facto standard for versioning: 
> semver. Yes,
> it is incompatible with Debian (and I guess FreeBSD) but you 
> can make
> it compatible by just changing one character ("-" -> "~").
>
> Since apparently a version naming scheme is needed, does anyone 
> have
> a good reason NOT to use a standard that's easily adaptable to 
> several
> popular distributions?

As Jacob already said, we will either need to go back to a major 
of 0, or improve our major number almost everytime there is a 
release.