9 Aug
2011
9 Aug
'11
8:01 a.m.
On Sunday 07 August 2011, 16:07:58, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Sjoerd Visscher wrote:
Does it ever make sense to have a dependency base < 5?
If 'base' follows the package version policy, then it does not make sense.
It kind of makes sense if you're using only things whose behaviour cannot reasonably change. It is reasonable to expect that if Data.List, say, were removed from base, that would be accompanied by a change of the first component of the version number. There's no guarantee, since PVP only demands the major version (the first two components) to be changed, but common sense says revolutionary changes should show up in the first component.