[Haskell-cafe] Platform Versioning Policy: upper bounds are not our friends

[Johan Tibell]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> So we are certain that the rounds of failures that led to their being
> *added* will never happen again?

It would be useful to have some examples of these. I'm not sure we had
any when we wrote the policy (but Duncan would know more), but rather
reasoned our way to the current policy by saying that things can
theoretically break if we don't have upper bounds, therefore we need
them.

-- Johan