I agree! And yet I lovingly sacrifice my man-hours to it when I decide to bump that major version number in my dependency manifest.

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account42 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The key words here being "I decide". I'm going to express a lot less love when someone else decides.

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procaryote 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Or minor versions of python...

Honestly python is probably one of the worst offender in this as they combine happily making breaking changes for low value rearranging of deck chairs with a dynamic language where you might only find out in runtime.

The fact that they've also decided to use an unconventional intepretation of minor version shows how little they care.

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chuckadams 3 days ago | parent [-]

The term "semantic versioning" didn't even exist until 2010, which is well after the birth of Python. Sure, it semi-formalized a convention from long before, but it was hardly universal.

	▲	account42 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The ideals behind semantic versioning existed long before the marketing term.
	▲	procaryote 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They of course get to break their thing however much they like, but it sure sucks