Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Rewriting a famous library and using the same name: pros and cons

[Jake McArthur]

Sorry, I hit Reply instead of Reply To All.

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From: Jake McArthur <jake.mcarthur at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Rewriting a famous library and using the
same name: pros and cons
To: Don Stewart <dons at galois.com>


Making a new name for an existing package subverts the intended
meaning of major revision numbers. Libraries that break as a result of
a major revision should have had more specific dependencies, and
tutorials that go out of date should also have specified the version
number of the package for which they were intended. It's a package
maintainer's responsibility to respect version number conventions. I
don't believe it is a package maintainer's responsibility to account
for blatant misuse of it.

- Jake