Implement semver for repository

ianlancetaylor / libbacktrace

A C library that may be linked into a C/C++ program to produce symbolic backtraces

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Open klimkin opened 3 years ago

klimkin commented 3 years ago

Considering adding a Conan package to CCI: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/issues/4262 Could you use tags to implement semver on the repository, please? That would simplify version tracking in CCI.

ianlancetaylor commented 3 years ago

You should always use HEAD.

I don't see how semver would help here.

klimkin commented 3 years ago

semver tags are convenient for referring to particular release of the library. semver also helps making reproducible builds.

Using HEAD as versioning strategy is really a choice of a user, why to limit the choice?

amery commented 3 years ago

it's not that HEAD is not always the greatest. the point is to know what did one use in retrospective

lanodan commented 10 months ago

Not having versions means it's going to be hard for:

packagers, they would have to carefully watch every commit, without themselves being maintainers of the library. (See https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/how_to_make_package_managers_cry/)
application developers, it means it's harder to provide support and also likely to end up hard-depending on the latest HEAD should they want to use something new (instead of carefully guarding it)