On 2020-02-10 2:59 p.m., Christopher Barker wrote:
> there are many reasons to at least specify a minimum version
Yes, but I think your proposal would encourage people to pin to the
latest version as a minimum, which would be unfortunate.
I like the maxim:
“don’t pin a version unless you have a good reason, and you’ve thought
about what version to pin to.”
Once you’ve done that — the formatting of the version string is a
light lift.
Then perhaps a mechanism to override the version check is in order. Also
useful when playing around with forks, I guess. (we still can't override
PIL, fwiw.)
-CHB
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