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Looking into versioning policies around Ruby gems.

Because RubyGems provides support for version comparisons, we want to pick a policy that works well with the RubyGems comparisons and gives the end user what they expect. We call such a policy “rational”. Also, if we call non-working policies “irrational”, then we apply a little bit of social engineering to gently prod offenders to conform. By the way, Knuth’s versioning policy (mentioned above) is not only irrational, it is also transcendental.

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