Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does Haskell PVP have two values for the major version? "A.B..." and a couple other questions

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Zach Moazeni wrote:

Forgive me if this is a frequently asked question, I've searched the web and can't find an answer. I originally sent this to the Beginners list and someone said this might get more responses here instead.

What is the history that led up to the PVP https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy

specifying two values as the major version?

One clue might be that that is how GHC itself is versioned. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net