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Re: [january-dev] Semantic Versioning for January (was Re: [eclipse/january] Update version number to 1.1.0 (#43))

From: Matthew Webber <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:51:29 +0000
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Under semantic versioning, adding an API also requires a bump in the major number, since it might be the case that the name of the newly added method in the base class is already in use by someone extending it. I have actually seen this happen.

On 11 January 2017 at 09:56, Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Peter,

I don't know. Has any API been removed? The API tools calculate this for us though.

Jonah

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