7 Aug
2011
7 Aug
'11
10:07 a.m.
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. Does 'base' follow this policy?
Strictly speaking never, because you can never know if a future 4.x change breaks your package, but maybe there are some rules of thumb when it is allowed?
I admit I also used 'base < 5' a lot, since in my experience, there was no breakage of my packages within 'base == 4.*'. If module XYZ in base changes, then according to the PVP, the major version of 'base' must be increased. If I do not use XYZ this does not matter for me. The problem for me is, that 'base' is still large and thus there are many modules of it, that I do not use.