23 Sep
2014
23 Sep
'14
6:01 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Thomas Miedema wrote:
## Motivation * The Eq and Ord instances of Version don't agree whether two versions with different versionTags are equal or not [1]:
> a = Version [1] ["a"] > b = Version [1] ["b"] > compare a b EQ > a == b False
* The Package versioning policy does not include version tags [2]. * Cabal no longer supports package version tags [3,4].
How are versions of pkg-config handled? pkg-config does not always return numeric versions.