A very kind suggestion to adjust Empirica versioning

[kaglowka]

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What happened?

Hi! I'm just getting familiar with Empirica (and thank you for this incredibly helpful framework!), so I'm perhaps in no position to demand changes, but I found the current version mismatch confusing (1.x.x releases corresponding to what's called Empirica 2 in the documentation).

I understand it's not an easy thing to adjust it now (and could cause further confusion), but I thought I'd create an issue to:

• track this version mismatch, so it's easy to signal if others find it problematic, too.
• be able to take the next good opportunity to adjust the versioning.

Steps To Reproduce

Actually I was trying to run a game based on Empirica 1, and at first I couldn't understand where the transition between Empirica 1 and 2 happened if this repo contains mostly 1.x.x releases. The comment at release 1.0 clarified it for me: https://github.com/empiricaly/empirica/releases/tag/v1.0.0

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[npaton]

Thank you for your feedback. I agree it's confusing. I'm afraid a version change now would be equally as confusing. It would signal to some that a major and backward-incompatible change happened, while it didn't. I'm torn. I obviously should have skipped to 2.0.0 on the first release. Now, I don't know. If people have opinions either way, please share them here.

[kaglowka]

Sure, I fully agree there's no clean solution now.

The best idea I can think of now is to take the opportunity if any backwards-incompatible changes are in fact made and make a jump to version 3.