On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 03:52 +0200, Marc Weber wrote:
1.) I know I can use Build-Depends: lib == <version>, lib2 < version, lib3 >= version and so on.
Do you think it would be useful to introducue some notation to indicate a "tested with" ?
Reason, purpose: I think its sometimes the case that a author/ mantainer is quite busy with other projects and misses that some dependencies break things.. If you want to try out you're left with some compiler errors and a dependency and have to try out which version works.
I would propose using this syntax: lib-1.3 >=1.1 to indicate that lib 1.1 is required at leeast and tested with up to 1.3.. Cabal might then give a warning if you try to use 1.4 or greater "using newer version than tested" or similar..
What do you think? Would this be useful?
Well there is actually already a "tested-with:" field that you can put in a .cabal file, however at the moment it refers only to the Haskell implementation, eg ghc-x.y, hugs-x.y etc not to versions of libraries. Yes, I think it's a quite reasonable argument to extend this to include exact versions of libraries that it has been tested with. What do others think? Duncan