FillArrays.jl that has 99 direct dependents and 1542 indirect dependents is going to v1.0, and most of the changes are already included in the release-1.0 branch ( see the changes vs master ). It’s unlikely to be breaking for most users, but please have a look in case this concerns you, and in case yo…

Is there a changelog with the changes to help people upgrade?

Dang I always forget about cool packages like this

Not that I know of, but this is more of a “this has been stable for a while, so let’s go to 1.0” tag, and it’s unlikely that anything needs upgrading. The way to track changes is really the commit history.

Please don’t tag breaking releases if they aren’t actually breaking.

Wouldn’t that keep packages from going to 1.0?

[image] ChrisRackauckas: Please don’t tag breaking releases if they aren’t actually breaking. Indeed. What’s the point?

[image] jishnub: Wouldn’t that keep packages from going to 1.0? Yes. But why do you want to go 1.0? One advantage is having the patch version field. But one could wait until a breaking change actually merits it and jump from (say) 0.19 to 1.0. Alternatively, in retrospective one could have …

[image] jishnub: Wouldn’t that keep packages from going to 1.0? No, because then when you do your breaking update to change it to v1.0. Why make work for 100 other people just for a nice number? Also, you’re keeping the package from getting this update because now if anybody in the entireity …

I would just note the following provision of semantic versioning. Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 Semantic Versioning spec and website Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered…

`FillArrays.jl` is going to 1.0

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`FillArrays.jl` is going to 1.0

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