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Wayland and Weston 1.6.0 released

Wayland and Weston 1.6.0 released

Posted Sep 25, 2014 19:51 UTC (Thu) by xtifr (guest, #143)
In reply to: Wayland and Weston 1.6.0 released by tjc
Parent article: Wayland and Weston 1.6.0 released

So, would you also object on libertarian grounds to a statement like "most people avoid gets()"? Or (more analogous) "most people expect a C header file to have include guards so things don't break if you include it multiple times"? That seems to me to be a simple (and accurate) observation. And so does "most people expect [these semantics] from version numbers".

I don't see anywhere where HelloWorld was saying what people *should* or *must* expect. He described his observation of what people *do* expect. And I basically agree with his observation, with the caveat that the definition on semver is a bit overspecified. (But not a lot.) I don't see how observing what people actually do violates any libertarian precepts. Which is why I was confused by your statement.


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Wayland and Weston 1.6.0 released

Posted Sep 25, 2014 21:06 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

I don't think most people expect any particular semantics at all from version numbers; if forced at gunpoint to state what I think most people expect from version numbers, I'd probably say something like "they go up over time" and "version 1.0 has more bugs than a bait store".


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