Re: RFC: Switch to a date-based versioning scheme
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 8:56 AM Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 11:58:01AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 04:20:24AM -0700, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > systemd is in a similar position as us, where they can't really break
> > compatibility because too much stuff is built on top, so they just
> > use an ever-increasing version number. Simple and effective. Why
> > can't we do the same?
>
> Note systemd is not strictly single digit - their stable releases have
> an extra digit.
And we could do the same.
I will also point out that systemd switched to an integer specifically
so they could break everything all the time. The libsystemd library is
not intended to be considered stable.
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