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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:
people: ask their dependencies to follow semver, for fuck's sake already
also people: make a surprised pikachu face when the major version is incremented with every release(i have been both, at times. this is about me. this is also about others who i've seen be a lot more militant about this issue)
the thing is, if you have a sufficiently complicated application it is not feasible to determine what is a "breaking change" or not. this complexity limit kicks in long before you get to a "browser" or a "JIT compiler" but it is definitely well applicable by that point
i think what people mean when they do both of those things are a mix of "please stop adding features entirely. only fix bugs" and "please only make changes i like, but not the changes i dislike" depending on maturity level. that's not really how open source software works though