On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:30 PM, David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com> wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > >> Requires: package >> Requires: package >= minversion >> Requires: package <= maxversion >> Requires: package = exactversion >> >> The usefulness of the first two should be obvious, but the third and >> fourth are needed as well. > > In the long term, perhaps. But for right now, just >= would address 90% of > the problem. That's all CPAN modules have, and while it's occasionally > annoying, it's *very* occasionally. > >> I think it's important that we don't get too confident that we've >> solved this problem in its full generality. I very much doubt that >> that's the case. > > Who said anything about full generality? I'm interested in a 90% (or even > 99%) solution.
It's pretty important that we don't design ourselves into a corner here. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
