Re: stepping backward

Sam Hunting wrote:

> As I understand the principle, whatever breaks existing documents is
> immoral. This applies whether the version number increments or not.

I, at least, don't think it's immoral (which I do not introduce as
a technical term) to make changes in meaning if the version number
is changed; indeed, that is the purpose of version numbers.
I just think it would be a bloody pain in the neck for very little
gain.  Let's save incrementing the version number until there is some
user benefit to supporting 1.0.1 or 1.1 or 2.0.

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