On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 08:21:12PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 08:16 PM, Lucas Kanashiro wrote: > > Just a ruby's newbie question: what does define a library as stable or not? > > Usually stable libraries have versions greater than 1.0 and follow > Semantic Versioning. Well, sort of. To be fair plenty of libraries that have sensible maintainers who know what they are doing do not have a version number larger than 1.0 and still won't break their users. The ideas about being responsible when other software depend on yours already existed for a long time, and the "creators" of "Semantic Versioning" just wrote them down in a hipster-friendly way. -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
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