How does this determine the magnitude?

[pauldendulk]

Sorry for my ignorance. I am just starting with Cake. It is not clear to me what this tool actually does. Does it compare the version numbers of the assemblies, or is there some further analysis? Does it depend on other tools? Which?

[wallymathieu]

The tool uses SynVer to determine if the public API surface of the assembly has indication of SemVer changes. You can of course have behavioral changes that breaks your SemVer version that the analysis can't detect.

[wallymathieu]

Perhaps we need to have additional documentation?

[pauldendulk]

ah, the link to SynVer is what I was missing. If you just add it in the Cake.SynVer readme.md that would have solved my problem.

A bit more on my 'user experience' looking for this. When I searched for the tool I arrived here. Not sure if this is the same thing. The Project Site at the top right point to nowhere, so I could not find it from there. Perhaps it would also help if you used the full name instead of the abbreviation to make it clearer.

Thanks for your quick reply!

[wallymathieu]

I think it's a valid issue 👍