PaceVer (an alternative to SemVer, for mobile apps)

8 pointsposted 3 days ago
by maxloh
(pacever.org)

5 Comments

encodedrose

an hour ago

>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/

cdmckay

31 minutes ago

In the article they call out that MARKETING can be date based

aaronbrethorst

an hour ago

I've been using calendar versioning quite happily with my mobile apps for a while now. It reduces the amount of angst and bike-shedding that comes along with otherwise rev'ing a major version number.

__m

2 hours ago

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

tadfisher

an hour ago

Officially, they are allowed if they consist of interpreted code and don't significantly change the functionality of the app as reviewed. Unofficially, they probably don't have a robust enforcement mechanism.