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kelnos on Nov 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The cargo cult of versioning

My reading of that was that "rename" in that context meant "rename your package from Foo-1 to Foo-2", not come up with a completely brand-new name.

jacalata on Nov 12, 2017 [–]

Mine too, eventually. I am surprised that the writer was unable to make even that very simple point clear.

devty on Nov 13, 2017 | [–]

I thought the author did a decent job - he had two examples (Rails-5 and Leftpad-17) that made the point pretty clearly.

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