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On 11 Apr 2014, at 01:34, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:

> On 4/10/2014 6:45 PM, J=F6rn Hees wrote:
>> what do you think about officially supporting Semantic Versioning?
>> (http://semver.org  )
>=20
> It is a nice fantasy.

;) didn=92t say it=92s perfect, just that it=92s widely used and we =
should support it.
I like the =93fantasy" as it at least tries to give some kind of a =
meaning to version numbers.
Sorry for not going into the details here, but that would quickly lead =
away from my main point.


> This is not to say that Semver does not improve the situation when it =
can be used.

I definitely think it does, i=92ll count that as half a vote for it ;)

j