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[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Date-based versioning sounds great in theory, but if you have more than one version in support at once then it can get ugly quickly

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 days ago
[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Say you released version 2023, 2024, and 2025, all of which are in support at the same time. It's 2025, but your latest release might be 2023.2, which looks like it's out of date to a user.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, I get you.

[-] unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

Apple bumps the version number for everything every year nowadays, so not a problem for them.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

What do they do about devices that are still getting minor updates or fixes but not new major versions?

[-] tangentism@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

At the mo, it would be something like macOS 15.5.1, iOS 18.2.2, etc

It will just move to year. major point update. minor point update so for example: 26.5.2

this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2025
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