Proposal: Changes to the PVP

[Greg Weber]

distributing applications compiled from source code (maybe you are
referring to XMonad?) is an interesting middle ground where there are pros
and cons to freezing. By application developer I really mean someone that
is only sharing an application with other team members that are developing
the application.


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
>  > Version freezing is for application developers, not library
>  > distributors like yourself.
>
> distributions ship both libraries and applications, and the applications
> are built with the set of libraries available within the distribution,
> of course. Because of this, version freezing in applications affects
> distributors very much, because we have to include the dependencies in
> exactly those versions that the application developer fancied -- instead
> of being able to chose from a range of versions that are convenient for
> the purposes of the distribution.
>
> I have packaged Haskell libraries and applications in ArchLinux and
> NixOS for the last 5+ years, and please believe me when I say that
> "version freezing" has caused me a lot of trouble in that time -- so
> much that we've developed tools to automatically undo it.
>
> Best regards,
> Peter
>
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