So many core packages in the Julia community, such as DataFrames are still pre-1.0 well after they have become ubiquitous. This causes a bit of confusion. Is the lack of a 1.0 a suggestion to users that they shouldn’t depend upon it for production work? What is the commitment to keep the API stable…

Fwiw, both DataFrames and PrettyTables will be tagging 1.0 in the next few weeks. So people definitely understand the issue and are working towards it already to some extent.

There are definitely projects/packages that could use more nudges towards tagging 1.0. Calling out DataFrames, however, feels wildly unfair at this moment as they’ve been explicitly working towards 1.0 and are so very close to the finish line. I get that navigating package compatibilities and down…

@pdeffebach & @mbauman Oh dear. I certainly didn’t mean to disparage DataFrames – and I’m thrilled to see 1.0. I enjoy using Tables very much, and look forward to using PrettyTables. We have a fantastic community with some amazing contributors. @dilumaluthge Thank you for pointing to this other th…

Well, names like Foo2 are forbidden, so it is not an option. JSON is a bad example that will never happen again.

Wait, why are these names forbidden?

[image] Skoffer: Well, names like Foo2 are forbidden, so it is not an option. So, here’s the problem I’m solving. Let’s say I release HypertextLiteral v1.0. I’m now working on incremental previews for my next major release. These aren’t yet v2.0, but yet, they certainly are not v1.X since …

[image] cce: Let’s say I release HypertextLiteral v1.0 . I’m now working on incremental previews for my next major release. These aren’t yet v2.0 , but yet, they certainly are not v1.X since they are breaking changes. How do I package them in the Julia ecosystem? Are you requesting that the p…

[image] mauro3: Are you requesting that the package manager also allows to release v2.0.0-alpha, …, v2.0.0-rc1, etc? That seems too complicated to me. No. Not at all. I’m expressly suggesting that one could use numeric postfixes, e.g. HypertextLiteral2 to accomplish provisional releases of a …

[image] cce: there is no mechanism to handle pre-release packages (for a major release v2) once you tag v1.0 . Well, this is unorthodox and might be difficult to sell pedagogically to your users, but you could actually go back to 0.x versions when preparing for 2.0. (And you almost certainly …

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