[Haskell-cafe] Checking in packages to Hackage early in development cycle?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2009 Mar 19, at 12:30, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Max" == Max Rabkin <max.rabkin at gmail.com> writes:
>
>    Max> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Manlio Perillo
>    Max> <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
>
>    Max> Personally, I think that there is little harm in releasing a
>    Max> package if it does something useful in a not-totally-broken
>    Max> way. Especially if you plan to extend it.
>
> Suppose you intend to extend it, and are not sure yet if the interface
> will change as a result?


Generally you indicate this by changing the minor version: 0.3.0,  
0.3.1, etc. have compatible APIs, but 0.4.0 has an incompatible API.   
And with major version 0, API breakage is expected in new releases.

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