On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 03:52 +0200, Marc Weber wrote: > 1.) > I know I can use > Build-Depends: lib == <version>, lib2 < version, lib3 >= > version > and so on. > > Do you think it would be useful to introducue some notation to indicate > a "tested with" ? > > Reason, purpose: I think its sometimes the case that a author/ mantainer > is quite busy with other projects and misses that some dependencies > break things.. If you want to try out you're left with some compiler > errors and a dependency and have to try out which version works. > > I would propose using this syntax: > lib-1.3 >=1.1 > to indicate that lib 1.1 is required at leeast and tested with up to > 1.3.. Cabal might then give a warning if you try to use 1.4 or greater > "using newer version than tested" or similar.. > > What do you think? > Would this be useful?
Well there is actually already a "tested-with:" field that you can put in a .cabal file, however at the moment it refers only to the Haskell implementation, eg ghc-x.y, hugs-x.y etc not to versions of libraries. Yes, I think it's a quite reasonable argument to extend this to include exact versions of libraries that it has been tested with. What do others think? Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
