On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 09:50 -0200, Maurício CA wrote: > > I recently started porting cabal-install to Freebsd. When > > I looked at its dependencies on hackage, I noticed HTTP > > (>=4000.0.2 && <4001). However the latest HTTP version on > > hackage is 4000.0.8. That struck me as kinda odd. How can cabal > > tell that it won't be compatible with HTTP version 4001? > > If it doesn't break dependencies, it won't be called http 4001, > it will be called 4000.0.9 :) > > Check: > > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy
I see. Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware of the versioning policy. Just to clarify though, wouldn't the next higher major version by 4000.1 rather than 4001? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
