Proposal: remove versionTags from Data.Version
Henning Thielemann
lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Tue Sep 23 22:01:55 UTC 2014
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Thomas Miedema wrote:
> ## Motivation
> * The Eq and Ord instances of Version don't agree whether two versions with different versionTags are equal
> or not [1]:
>
> > a = Version [1] ["a"]
> > b = Version [1] ["b"]
> > compare a b
> EQ
> > a == b
> False
>
> * The Package versioning policy does not include version tags [2].
> * Cabal no longer supports package version tags [3,4].
How are versions of pkg-config handled? pkg-config does not always return
numeric versions.
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