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

[Thomas Schilling]

My thoughts on the matter got a little long, so I posted them here:

http://nominolo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/beyond-package-version-policies.html

On 17 August 2012 12:48, Heinrich Apfelmus <apfelmus at quantentunnel.de>wrote:

> Brent Yorgey wrote:
>
>> Yitzchak Gale wrote:
>>
>>> For actively maintained packages, I think the
>>> problem is that package maintainers don't find
>>> out promptly that an upper bound needs to be
>>> bumped. One way to solve that would be a
>>> simple bot that notifies the package maintainer
>>> as soon as an upper bound becomes out-of-date.
>>>
>>
>> This already exists:
>>
>>   http://packdeps.haskellers.**com/ <http://packdeps.haskellers.com/>
>>
>
> Indeed. It even has RSS feeds, like this
>
>  http://packdeps.haskellers.**com/feed/reactive-banana<http://packdeps.haskellers.com/feed/reactive-banana>
>
> Extremely useful!
>
>
> Best regards,
> Heinrich Apfelmus
>
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