Version number: Are we ready for 1.0?

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On Friday, 17 April 2015 at 05:19:05 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> The major D compilers are currently:
>
>     dmd 2.067
>     gdc 4.8.4
>     ldc 0.15.1
>
> Looks like ldc is still in its early stages. Given the fact 
> that ldc is more then 10 years old (see David's presentation at 
> DConf'13) then this does not really reflect the state of ldc.
>
> I like to do something about the version number. Possible plans 
> I identified are:
>
> - The 2.067 merge gets version 0.99.0 and with the 2.068 move 
> on to 1.0.0.
>   (First version with D code in the frontend!)
>
> - Just drop 0. Next version is 16.0
>
> Any opinions or better ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Kai

What is the point in 0.99? It is not like version numbers in 
semver are percentages. 0.16.x for 2.067 merge and 1.0.x for 
2.068 make most sense to me.