[sametmax]

You assume software is perfect and people don't make mistake. Breaking compat on accident happens. Bad pushes and releases exist. Unpatched bugs in latest. Wrong deployments.

Semver make it easier to spot/prevent mistakes by giving you more granular information. It's not like it's a data overload, so "too much info" as argument is really weird.

Purity in computing is a terrible master.

[lugg]

> Breaking compat on accident happens.

Semver would be what? Tests should catch it. Mine or yours.

> Bad pushes and releases exist.

Semver would be what? Tests should catch it. Mine or yours.

> Unpatched bugs in latest.

Semver would be what? Tests should catch it. Mine or yours.

> Wrong deployments.

Semver would be what? Tests should catch it. Mine or yours.

> Semver make it easier to spot/prevent mistakes by giving you more granular information.

None of those things are fixed by semver. What is the point of semver again?

The only thing I, as a user, give any crap about is breaking change. i.e. major version numbers.

So why not just have one or two levels?

[pvinis]

One level is great and enough. Version X is nice.

Oh you care about breaking changes? Ok then for you we will have two levels. Version X.Y it is. For the person above that doesn't care about breaking, two levels still work.

What? You want to show your audience/clients/users that an update contains something interesting for them like a feature, and separate it from a simple typo-fix release? I guess we are adding another level then. Version X.Y.Z is here.

You see, semver is not the ideal way for everyone, but it's the way that everyone can use as they want. As a receiver of a version, you can care about if it's a feature or no, breaking or no, and you set your requirement to a specific number, or ^a number or ~a number etc. As a creator of a version, in order for everyone to work with semver the way they like it, we should be good citizens and try to signify what this version has. Even if you don't care about breaking changes or showing if you just added a feature, try to signify it in your version string. It will help someone.