Jacob Tomlinson
#versioning
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Python version epochs are broken
In PEP440 Python introduced Version Epochs as a mechanism to allow projects to change versioning scheme. Unfortunately there’s no way I could see a project actually making use of this without confusing their users.
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EffVer: Version your code by the effort required to upgrade
Version numbers are hard to get right. Semantic Versioning (SemVer) communicates backward compatibility via version numbers which often lead to a false sense of security and broken promises. Calendar Versioning (CalVer) sits at the other extreme of communicating almost no useful information at all.