Forgot the header, sorry. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Christoph Breitkopf < chbreitk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm trying to figure out how to handle versioning of my IntervalMap > package. I've just read the package versioning policy: > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy > > I don't quite understand all the recommendations in the above document, > though: > > a) You are not allowed to remove or change the types of existing stuff. Ok. > > b) You are allowed to add new functions. But that can break compilation > because of name conflicts. Seems to be allowed on the grounds that this is > easy to fix in the client code. > > c) You are not allowed to add new instances. I don't get this - how is > this any worse than b)? > > I do understand that it is not generally possible to prevent breaking code > - for example if the client code depends on buggy behavior that gets fixed > in a minor version update. That seems unavoidable - after all, bugfixes are > _the_ reason for minor updates. > > Regards, > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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