Re: [Haskell-cafe] Rewriting a famous library and using the same name: pros and cons

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:21:54AM -0700, Gregory Crosswhite wrote:

Or you just put an upper bound on the versions of the fgl library that your program will build against, as you should be doing anyway, and then nothing breaks.

Until some package you rely on decides to upgrade and start using fgl-6 internally without modifying its external API. Suddenly you are incompatible without a version number bump anywhere due to a completely non-local change. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/