On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:54:12PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
I've written down the proposed policy for versioning here:
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy
It turned out there was a previous page written by Bulat that contained essentially this policy, but it wasn't linked from anywhere which explains why it was overlooked. I took the liberty of rewriting the text.
You wrote:
A client that wants to specify that they depend on a particular version of the API can specify a particular A.B.C and be sure of getting that API only. For example, build-depends: mypkg-2.1.1
Are you proposing an extension along the lines of that proposed by Thomas (and Bulat, and others), i.e. this would be equivalent to build-depends: mypkg >= 2.1.1 && < 2.1.2 ? The current syntax of mypkg == 2.1.1 would match the initial release but not subsequent patch releases.