Tobias Preuss johnjohndoe

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

	@ECHO OFF
	@REM Jack is only available from build tools version 21.1.0 and up. Install/Update via SDK Manager
	SET BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION=21.1.2

	java -jar %ANDROID_HOME%/build-tools/%BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION%/jack.jar %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

	/*
	* Copyright 2014 Chris Banes
	*
	* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	* You may obtain a copy of the License at
	*
	* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	*
	* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

	<!-- You can change the parent around to whatever you normally use -->
	<style name="DebugColors" parent="Theme.AppCompat">

	<!-- System colors -->
	<item name="android:windowBackground">@color/__debugWindowBackground</item>

	<item name="android:colorPressedHighlight">#FF4400</item>
	<item name="android:colorLongPressedHighlight">#FF0044</item>
	<item name="android:colorFocusedHighlight">#44FF00</item>
	<item name="android:colorActivatedHighlight">#00FF44</item>

	android {

	// .. set up build flavors etc here

	//instead of "app-release.apk" this method will rewrite the name to
	// "MyCoolCompany-MyGreatProduct-v<defaultConfig.versionName>-RELEASE.apk which is much better suited for archiving and overall handling
	// To restore the default behavior just delete the whole block below
	applicationVariants.all { variant ->

	def apk = variant.outputFile;

	public class ListViewUtils {
	public static final int SCROLL_DURATION = 150;

	private ListViewUtils() {}

	@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
	public static void scrollListView(final ListView listView, final int position) {
	if (CommonUtils.hasHoneycomb()) {
	listView.smoothScrollToPositionFromTop(position, 0);
	listView.postDelayed(new Runnable() {

	android {
	applicationVariants.all { variant ->
	def flavor = variant.mergedFlavor
	def name = flavor.getVersionName()
	def versionName = name + '-' + variant.properties.get('flavorName')
	if (variant.buildType.isDebuggable()) {
	versionName += '-debug';
	}
	flavor.versionName = versionName;
	}