Request: Make releases about abaddon HOT 4 CLOSED

yeah it's a good idea and something i was thinking about the other day. i don't really consider this as v1 yet so i figure it might be a good idea starting at say 0.1.0 and incrementing the minor level for something like threads which i just merged or something like #29 and patch being bumped every once in a while with whatever's new if nothing worthy of a minor bump has happened. since this isn't a library or something of the sort idk how the major version would work because "breaking change" isn't that concrete. i think i'd just set it to 1.x.x when i think it deserves it and leave it at that unless i do something drastic. i'll probably make the first release in the next couple days.

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Well, semantic versioning allows any change to happen in minor bumps as long as the major version is 0. And while the major version is 0, the software shall be considered incomplete or in development, so 0.x.y release are currently the way to go.

For major bumps, there might definitely scenarios which cause breaking changes, e.g.

• changing the way the UI works/feels
• changing the config file format completely
• changing CLI paramaters completely

And, after all, you are not bound to semantic versioning. While today almost everyone expects a library to follow semantic versioning, this is not a library. I'd say make up your rules when to do a major bump and the rest can follow semantic versioning as much as is appropriate.

from abaddon.

Another thing from a package mainainter's view: A package maintainer doesn't really care how you make your versions (okay, on some distros like e.g. Gentoo certain versioning schemes make packaging easier for certain libraries, but that's not the case here), as long as you make versions which make it clear when a package maintainer has to bump a new version and thus make users install the package again (now with the new version).

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alright well i'll close this since i think i'll start doing releases soon. still not 100% certain how i want to pace out the versions but i think i can figure it out going along.

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