[christofd]

Interesting idea. I could imagine whole environments of development stacks being defined: e.g. a Rails 2.3.5 production stack, or a Django stack, or a Clojure webdev/ data mining stack, and all according to exact version numbers.

I could see that for Big Ticket projects such as Rails/ Clojure/ Django etc. people would maintain an up-to-date 'semver' database.

The only thing is that the name 'semantic' is not really a winner (it sets people on edge). Maybe something else will survive in the end, unless people are comfortable enough with the pragmatic value of the idea and will look past the name.