version tags

Isaac Potoczny-Jones ijones at syntaxpolice.org
Thu May 8 18:39:09 EDT 2008


Duncan Coutts wrote:
(snip)
> Does this seem like a good idea? What is/was the rationale for tags in
> the first place?

Yes, if I recall, Tags were not originally supposed to affect the 
ordering of versions, but meant only for human consumption.  Whether 
changing that now is a good idea or not, it's hard to say.  How many 
packages in Hackage have any tags, for instance?


peace,

   isaac



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