distributing applications compiled from source code (maybe you are referring to XMonad?) is an interesting middle ground where there are pros and cons to freezing. By application developer I really mean someone that is only sharing an application with other team members that are developing the application.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> wrote:

Hi Greg,

> Version freezing is for application developers, not library
> distributors like yourself.

distributions ship both libraries and applications, and the applications
are built with the set of libraries available within the distribution,
of course. Because of this, version freezing in applications affects
distributors very much, because we have to include the dependencies in
exactly those versions that the application developer fancied -- instead
of being able to chose from a range of versions that are convenient for
the purposes of the distribution.

I have packaged Haskell libraries and applications in ArchLinux and
NixOS for the last 5+ years, and please believe me when I say that
"version freezing" has caused me a lot of trouble in that time -- so
much that we've developed tools to automatically undo it.

Best regards,

Peter

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