Commits on Apr 21, 2023

1. releases: use +dev as in-development suffix …

   Under SemVer, the suffix "-dev" actually indicates a pre-release,
   meaning the way we've been using the suffix indicates that "1.0.0-dev"
   is *older* than "1.0.0" when we've used the suffix to indicate the
   opposite.
   
   With most package managers, the "+dev" suffix correctly indicates that
   the version is newer (i.e. 1.0.1 > 1.0.0+dev > 1.0.0), though under
   SemVer "+dev" build tags must be ignored when doing version comparisons
   (meaning 1.0.0+dev == 1.0.0 under SemVer). However,  from a SemVer
   perspective the unreleased version is inarguably closer to being equal
   to the last release than being older than it. As a specification we also
   allow extensibility of various parts, meaning that if someone uses an
   as-yet-unreleased version it seems reasonable to me for it to be treated
   as the same (from a SemVer perspective) as the last released version
   it's based on.
   
   The other option would be to continue to use "-dev" as a suffix but bump
   the rest of the version number to the next version we plan to release,
   but this could also cause issues (we could have a "pre-release" for a
   release that never happened). Using "+dev" seems more sensible.
   
   Switching to "+dev" also matches the way runc and umoci are versioned,
   and allows downstreams that use as-yet-unreleased versions of our specs
   to have their spec versions be treated as the same as the released
   version by other consumers.
   
   Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de>

   

   cyphar committed Apr 21, 2023
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