[Haskell] Package "mounting" proposal

[Stefan Karrmann]

My 2 cents:

Sven Moritz Hallberg (Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 01:24:43AM +0200):
> [...]
> She must specify it somehow. Two possibilities come to mind:
> 
>   1. Add a field to the package description of foo (v1.4, say) that says
>      "I'm backwards-compatible with 1.3." When building, this relation
>      would have to be inspected to see whether any currently installed
>      version of foo satisfies the dependency specified by the mount.
>   2. Declare a convention for version numbers to carry compatibility
>      information, like the OpenGL standard, for example: If the new
>      version is backwards-compatible, only the minor version number
>      changes. If it isn't, the major version number must be incremented.
> 

I prefer 1. The FSF use 2 for its GNU software and others started with it,
too. But after a while most of them tend to increase major numbers. E.g.
3.0, 3.11, 95, 98, 2000

Regards,
-- 
Stefan Karrmann

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