Sorry, I hit Reply instead of Reply To All. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jake McArthur Date: Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:16 PM Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Rewriting a famous library and using the same name: pros and cons To: Don Stewart Making a new name for an existing package subverts the intended meaning of major revision numbers. Libraries that break as a result of a major revision should have had more specific dependencies, and tutorials that go out of date should also have specified the version number of the package for which they were intended. It's a package maintainer's responsibility to respect version number conventions. I don't believe it is a package maintainer's responsibility to account for blatant misuse of it. - Jake