Hello colleagues, On Monday, July 21, 2014 4:53:17 PM UTC+2, Tomas Lycken wrote: > > I think this problem must be resolved by better practices among package > maintainers: in short, the goal must be that as long as you only use (the > latest) tagged versions of any packages, everything should Just Work (TM). > That means, in short, that if a package maintainer adds functionality that > depends on some specific addition to a different package, it is up to that > package maintainer to make sure *not* to tag a new version until the > dependency package has tagged one, in which the new behavior is included, > so the dependency can be correctly specified. > >> >> ... in an ideal world. All that we use around julia has a version number less than 1.0 so hiccups are expected (at least by me). The question was rather how i can help myself and if there is some undocumented work assumption. If i ever publish a package i'll try hard to follow your advice.
This interdependency things showed up also in the great julia-graphics thread on julia-dev. Maybe some automatic testing could help? Maybe some dependency graph could be extracted out of the METADATA? Wishing a happy day,
