[Haskell-cafe] The instability of Haskell libraries

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Sat Apr 24 06:21:04 EDT 2010


Mads Lindstrøm <mads.lindstroem at gmail.com> writes:
> But that would be an API change. It is of cause a question of how strict
> we want to be. I have seen several times that commercial software
> developers denies changes bugs, as the fix would constitute API changes.
> We obviously do not want to go there, but we could bump the version
> number as it would require little work.

I would argue that it would involve bumping a minor version number, not
a major version number (which indicates an API change) since it's just a
bug fix.

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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