Specifying possible version statements for libraries and apps

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Friday, 8 October 2021 at 17:01:47 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> I would like to suggest adding some kind of standard metadata 
> format to declare which custom versions (maybe also debug 
> versions?) an application or library consumes and defines. This 
> could be used as documentation for others, to know what kind of 
> versions exist and may be used for example for auto completion 
> and static analysis to see if typos in versions have been made.
>

I think 1 is a good idea, as it fits existing code already. I 
feel like it's better not to do it for debug identifiers, as they 
tend to be private to a project, unlike version identifiers.