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

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Carter Schonwald <
carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> no one is disputing that there are conditional changes in dependencies
> depending on library versions.


Indeed.  But the ghc release that split up base broke cabalised packages
with no warning to users until they failed to compile.  Upper bounds were
put in place to avoid that kind of breakage in the future.

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