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by Sean1708 3445 days ago

  > But it would work the same way with monotonically increasing version. no?
Kinda. If I can use 1.4 then I can use 1.7 but I can't necessarily use 2.1, because 1.7 only added things to 1.4 but 2.1 changed something about the public interface.

  > I am just trying to understand how semver applies to REST in your case. Never seen anything but single number versioning for endpoints.
Sorry, I didn't realise we were talking about REST.