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PaceVer (an alternative to SemVer, for mobile apps)

12 points by maxloh

by encodedrose

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>MARKETING.NATIVE.OTA
Calendar Versioning (CalVer, YYYY.Release.Patch) fulfills the same need and you can see it in practice with Jetbrains (e.g. the latest version of IDEA is 2025.3.6).
The only difference is Jetbrains uses YYYY.R for marketing, see: "What's new In 2025.3"[1]
https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/2025-3/

by __m

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What’s the state of OTA updates, does Apple still prohibit them, or is it just not enforced?

by ea016

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For our mobile app we ended up doing YEAR.WEEK_NUMBER.BUILD. It makes it much easier for our team to know how old a version is (support, analytics, engineering). And regular users don't care about the version