Re: Library versioning policy

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

say, if i wrote my program using Streams 1.2.1, i can specify

Build-Depends: Streams 1.2.*

You can already say build-depends: Streams >= 1.2 && < 1.3 The 1.2.* syntax would be just sugar (sugar is nice, though). I think adopting a consistent versioning policy is a good thing, but we (the Cabal designers) didn't want to impose a versioning policy because we felt that doing so would be too restrictive - people often want to be free to choose their own. So I think having a *recommended* policy, and clearly documenting it, is the way to go. Cheers, Simon