> On Apr 18, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
>
> If we mandated semver (or something like it) we could make it so that
> transferring a name *forced* a major version bump and the new author would be
> unable to release anything using a smaller major version number, people could
> then pin to <CURRENT_MAJOR+1 and be assured that somebody new won’t take over
> a project without their knowing about it. However we haven’t historically
> mandated this and there are a lot of projects using date based versions that
> would b very unhappy (in addition to the fact upper pins often are major
> contributors to being unable to resolve a version tree of dependencies).
Just want to raise my hand to be counted here among the people that would be
extremely unhappy if PyPI started mandating semver.
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