Pierre Dulac dulacp

Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

	#===============================================================================
	# Filename: boost.sh
	# Author: Pete Goodliffe
	# Copyright: (c) Copyright 2009 Pete Goodliffe
	# Licence: Please feel free to use this, with attribution
	# Modified version
	#===============================================================================
	#
	# Builds a Boost framework for iOS, iOS Simulator, and OSX.
	# Creates a set of universal libraries that can be used on an iOS and in the

	//
	// Queue.swift
	// NTBSwift
	//
	// Created by Kåre Morstøl on 11/07/14.
	//
	// Using the "Two-Lock Concurrent Queue Algorithm" from http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/synchronization/pseudocode/queues.html#tlq, without the locks.


	// should be an inner class of Queue, but inner classes and generics crash the compiler, SourceKit (repeatedly) and occasionally XCode.

	import Cocoa

	class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {

	@IBOutlet var window: NSWindow
	@IBOutlet var label: NSTextField

	func applicationDidFinishLaunching(aNotification: NSNotification?) {
	// Insert code here to initialize your application
	}

	#########################
	# .gitignore file for Xcode5
	#
	# NB: if you are storing "built" products, this WILL NOT WORK,
	# and you should use a different .gitignore (or none at all)
	# This file is for SOURCE projects, where there are many extra
	# files that we want to exclude
	#
	# https://gist.github.com/dulaccc/31df7f166a462bf7eacd
	#########################

	- (void)setupCamera
	{
	self.coreImageContext = [CIContext contextWithOptions:nil];

	// session
	self.cameraSession = [[AVCaptureSession alloc] init];
	[self.cameraSession setSessionPreset:AVCaptureSessionPresetPhoto];
	[self.cameraSession commitConfiguration];

	// input

	rm -rf install_*
	rm -rf output-*

	# build simulator
	./configure --prefix=`pwd`/install_i386 CFLAGS="-Ofast -mios-version-min=5.0" LDFLAGS="-flto" CC="xcrun -sdk iphonesimulator clang -arch i386"
	make clean && make -j8 && make install

	./configure --prefix=`pwd`/install_x86_64 CFLAGS="-Ofast -mios-version-min=5.0" LDFLAGS="-flto" CC="xcrun -sdk iphonesimulator clang -arch x86_64"
	make clean && make -j8 && make install

	test:
	override:
	- bundle exec rspec spec

	deployment:
	acceptance:
	branch: master
	commands:
	- ./script/heroku_deploy.sh <ACCEPTANCE_HEROKU_APP>:
	timeout: 300

	- (void)controllerWillChangeContent:(NSFetchedResultsController *)controller
	{
	self.shouldReloadCollectionView = NO;
	self.blockOperation = [[NSBlockOperation alloc] init];
	}

	- (void)controller:(NSFetchedResultsController *)controller didChangeSection:(id<NSFetchedResultsSectionInfo>)sectionInfo
	atIndex:(NSUInteger)sectionIndex forChangeType:(NSFetchedResultsChangeType)type
	{
	__weak UICollectionView *collectionView = self.collectionView;