[Dlang-internal] dmd semver experiment

Sebastian Wilzbach seb at wilzba.ch
Sun Jan 14 19:11:33 UTC 2018


On 2018-01-14 20:04, Martin Nowak via Dlang-internal wrote:
> On Monday, 8 January 2018 at 06:21:05 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 04:50:51 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>> We would still keep the bi-monthly releases, but make them point 
>>> releases.
>>> So new additions could still be released regularly, but breaking 
>>> changes and deprecations would have to wait until the next major 
>>> release.
>> 
>> You probably mean minor releases. Point ones can only contain bug 
>> fixes and no features.
> 
> Yes, semver uses the less confusion terms MINOR (bi-monthly) and PATCH
> (bugfixes).

How would that work in terms of development?
Would we need another branch for deprecations and breaking changes?


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