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