On: Sentimental Versioning

[mumblemumble]

I would have included an honorable mention for Guava.

With as many as three major releases a year, its versioning system is a performance art piece exploring the endless turmoil and internal struggle of a project that is expected by the world to follow semantic versioning, but whose soul yearns to move fast and break things.

[gred → mumblemumble]

Ah yes, version "9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava" is especially impressive.

[advisory5739f2 → mumblemumble]

Guava cannot not be viewed as a stable platform library, with three major releases a year.

[8note → advisory5739f2]

Over the past 4 years of using guava in a few services, I haven't needed to do anything more than bump the version number.

At least for the basics(immutable collections), it's stable enough

[mumblemumble → 8note]

It's generally pretty fine as a direct dependency. It's when it comes in as a transitive dependency that the demon comes out.