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Golden Versioning
This software is versioned under a scheme I call "goldver", as an homage to the vastly inferior semver.
What does "goldver" mean?
When projects are versioned with goldver, the first version is "1". Note that it is not "1.0", or, "1.0-prealpha-release-preview", or anything nonsensical like that. As new versions are released, decimals from phi, the Golden Ratio, are appended after an initial decimal point. So the second released version will be "1.6", the third would be "1.61", etc., and on until perfection is asymptotically approached as the number of released versions goes to infinity.
Wait, didn't Donald Knuth do this?
No! He uses pi for TeX and e for MetaFont, obviously COMPLETELY different.
Ok.
Cool.
What version is Godiva now?
Canonically, see the VERSION file. Heretically, once there have been
at least three releases, the version string in the Cargo.toml file will
always be of the form "1.6.x", where x is at least one digit long, starting
with "1". Each subsequent release will append the next digit of phi to
x. The number of releases can be calculated by counting the number of digits
in x and adding 2 to that.