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Re:Announcing Rust 1.30 by oconnor663 on Friday October 26, 2018 @10:41AM (#18309621)
I latched onto the URL idea because it's something we're wondering about with the `peru` project today :) https://github.com/buildinspace/peru/issues/193

Totally, fetching a single version through URLs works now, even on GitHub if you use tags. The tricky part is saying "I'm using 1.0, and 1.1 just came out, so I should upgrade to that." That requires ecosystem-wide agreement that everyone's going to use SemVer, and it assumes that everything's hosted in git or similar where there's a standard way to enumerate the available versions.

Re:Announcing Rust 1.30 by Boulth on Saturday October 27, 2018 @04:17AM (#18314840)
Well tags are usually perceived as immutable but one can imagine adding an info to the tag with the "next version" coordinates.

For example, tag v1.0: and a text at the bottom of the message "Next-Version: v1.1".

Or if one can enumerate versions/tags you could add back pointers to new versions/tags. Example, tag v1.1 with message including "Replaces-Version: v1.0".