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0 pointssheepmullet9y ago0 comments

So lots of manual work. And you still don't see the issue?

Wouldn't it be good if there was some kind of automated way to know?

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But without semver you'd need to do this manual work even more often! Semver makes you do less manual labor, because you know that PATCH and MINOR don't require your attention. You don't know such a thing in many other versioning schemes.

Would it be better to eliminate even more manual labor? Yes, of course. But then is semver bad because it reduces manual labor?

prayerslayer9y ago

I get your overall point that it's better than nothing, but you'll have to admit semver makes promises that just don't hold up in reality:

> because you know that PATCH and MINOR don't require your attention

In 99 % of cases, they don't. But you're never completely sure.

jjnoakes9y ago

Semver doesn't preclude automating anything, does it?

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