Feedback on Átila's Vision for D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On Friday, 18 October 2019 at 16:07:43 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:

> I agree and support all of this. I know that dmd as a library 
> right now can only be used from dub with `~master`. What is the 
> technical reason stopping a version number again?

Dub needs a Git tag and it needs to follow semantic versioning, 
otherwise Dub will ignore it. The tags for the compiler do not 
follow semantic versioning. There's no technical reason. It's 
just that the compiler releases doesn't follow the semantic 
versioning model. Any release can break anything, basically.

I suggested a workaround until the compiler properly follows the 
semantic versioning model. Which is to add two tags for each new 
release. One that we already add today. The other one would be 
explicitly intended only for the library and would be `0.x.0` and 
we increment `x` by one for each release. Since the `0.x.y` 
versions have special meaning, it's for the initial development. 
Semantic versioning says:

"Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be 
considered stable."

Nothing happened with that with that suggestion.

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/Jacob Carlborg