Re: version tags

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:59:25AM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

Ross Paterson wrote:

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What are tags for? Should we have them at all?

hsgnutls-0.2.3-barracuda hsgnutls-0.2.3.1-barracuda regex-tdfa-0.92-ghc-68-build-fix

I'm guessing that the tag generally indicates a specific set of bugfixes over the original version?

If they are ignored when comparing version numbers then that means that cabal-install won't update the package to incorporate the bug fix, which sounds bad. Build fixes would be OK from that point of view. Personally I've never liked tags. I'd be happy to remove them, even though the type is in base. Thanks Ian