Adam Kennedy wrote:
> The v seemingly adds no meaning for the machines, and will just add
> confusion for the humans.
>
> So are you in favour of just a "2 means float, 3 means tuple" approach?
Yep, that's where it all started.
David Golden wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Adam Kennedy
> <adamkennedybac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If we take such an attitude though then we're saying this isn't being
>> written as a machine-consumed document that humans can debug if they
>> need to, but as something that needs to be first-class consumable by
>> humans, then there's no point of having a v at all.
>
> It needs to be first class consumed by *programmers*, who will write
> or cargo-cult whatever idiotic thing gets their job done faster by
> looking at examples instead of reading a spec.
+1
To rephrase, there's not a black and white distinction here between "what
machines can read" and "what humans can read". Both are going to read and
mess with/up this.
> And the other place version numbers show up is in distfile names --
> where there is no spec and where people will do god knows what trying
> to process them.
>
> Strict in what we emit: v1.2.0
> Liberal in what we accept: v1.2
+1
OMG, agreement!
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