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[โ€“] Orvanis@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In all seriousness, is the Dev using the build date as the version number....? July 8th, 2023 at 12:34am - vYY.MM.DD-HH.mm

Unusual approach for sure as you have no clue if it is a major version change or minor bug fixes.

[โ€“] icesentry@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Using the date as a version number for an application that gets frequent updates is very standard. Most users will be expected to be on the latest version always.

There's even a website for it https://calver.org

[โ€“] Orvanis@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the web link, TIL it is much more common than I was aware!

[โ€“] cypherix93@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Generally speaking, I find it easier and more intuitive to use. We use calver at work bc it seems pointless to identify if every week's release is major / minor / patch etc. My thought is the latest is the greatest - if something goes wrong, it'll be fixed in a later version ยฏโ \โ _โ (โ ใƒ„โ )โ _โ /โ ยฏ

[โ€“] schnex@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, I always found semantic versioning pretty useless, except for knowing that a new major release breaks existing APIs

[โ€“] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's great to get a quick context of the size of the change expected. That does require the developer numbering the release to appropriately version it though.

[โ€“] sndrtj@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

calendar versioning (calver) is not that uncommon actually.