4 Aug
2003
4 Aug
'03
7:40 a.m.
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Simon Marlow wrote:
There are issues about exactly what the programmer would have to do to make this happen: under the story I had in mind you would have to fiddle with a user-local package.conf file to change the mapping. Perhaps command-line flags could be added to make this more convenient, though.
The advantage of command-line flags would be that a library author could write their code to import Collections.Foo without any version specifier, and then distribute it with a Makefile or whatever that made Collections.Foo use the appropriate version number if there was a compatibility issue. Then it would only need to be changed in one place as the required version changed. Cheers, Ganesh