[Haskell-cafe] Failing to install hxt: tagsoup versioning
Malcolm Wallace
Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Mon Jan 25 08:31:07 EST 2010
> Minor version bumps which leave the API unchanged shouldn't break
> anything, http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy
>
> Neil, in this case i think, tagsoup's version shouldn't have changed
> from 0.6 to minor 0.8 while exported definitions such as
> "optLookupEntity" were removed.
Changing version number 0.6 -> 0.8 is a major release increment, not a
minor one, according the package versioning policy linked to.
Regards,
Malcolm
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