On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Sven Panne
Regarding upper bounds: I never understood what their advantage should be, IMHO they only lead to a version hell where you can't compile your stuff anymore *only* because of the bounds, not because of anything else.
A couple months ago we had yet another example of "that will never happen" caused by people ignoring upper bounds. Developers never saw any problem, of course; and who cares about all the users who had compiles explode with unexpected errors? I think it took less than two weeks after someone patched up the most visibly affected packages before developers were shouting to remove upper bounds from the PVP again, because the affected users are just users and apparently not important enough to consider when setting versioning policy. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net