Indeed, saying that Lua always followed semver was a stretch (_ENV broke
backwards compatibility in 5.2). But they always strived for backwards
compatibility in minor versions, and never added new features in "patch"
versions. That's almost semver :-)
The thing is, following semver has nearly zero cost and several benefits.
And it's only really valuable if the packages you're using also follow it.
So I think it's something that should be officially recommended by
LuaRocks...
On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 4:18 PM Daurnimator <q...@daurnimator.com> wrote:
> On 6 December 2015 at 22:52, Thiago Bastos <tabas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is called semantic versioning ( http://semver.org ). It's something
> > that Lua itself has always followed
>
> Lua has never used semantic versioning.
> Lua has a version format of major.minor.bugfix:
> - a major release indicates new significant changes
> - a minor release indicates incremental changes. no guarantee of
> backwards compatibility
> - a bugfix release maintains backwards compatibility and introduces
> no new user visible features
>
>
> That said: I do feel like the luarocks might want a 2.3.0 release
> here. Some of the changes seem significant enough to bump the minor
> version.
>
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