Re: Request to follow SemVer/mention it in homepage

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org> wrote:
> Can you mention the recommended way of adding unicorn in a Gemfile in
> your home page?

I'm not very knowledgeable about bundler, but app servers probably
should not be in any packaged Gemfile at all.

> gitlab and diaspora has unicorn in their Gemfile, for a user they want
> gitlab or diaspora and they don't care if its using unicorn or puma or
> passenger.
> 
> I need some kind of an official statement about compatibility which I
> can show to projects like gitlab and diaspora, so they don't insist on
> exact patch release of unicorn. I could patch the Gemfile, but that
> adds extra burden on me as a maintainer which I'd like to avoid if
> possible.

"Official statements" do not have much weight behind them; history does.

They can look at the git history (especially that of manpages and
documentation) to see the only feature removals were for undocumented
cruft.

Personally, I intensely dislike "official" things; so people shouldn't
take what I (or anybody) writes as gospel.