I went into METADATA and updated the requires files, then submitted a new commit. I actually did this for one release of NumericExtensions which would reliably crash when loading on the 0.2 release.
— John On Feb 1, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Dahua Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > > Could you elaborate a little bit about how you did this? > > Recent changes in NumericExtensions that rely on some new features have > caused headaches to users who use 0.2 release. I would like to do something > to fix it sometime next week. > > — Dahua > > On February 1, 2014 at 5:08:34 PM, John Myles White > ([email protected]) wrote: > >> I think so. I’ve done it recently and fixed some errors by doing it. >> >> — John >> >> On Feb 1, 2014, at 3:07 PM, Dahua Lin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to update the requirement of previously tagged versions? >>> >>> On Friday, January 31, 2014 5:13:21 PM UTC-6, Ivar Nesje wrote: >>> It seems like you are using the 0.2.0 version of Julia, and some package >>> authors have not correctly marked new versions of their package to require >>> 0.3.0-prerelease when they decided to use features that has been introduced >>> after the release of 0.2.0. The consequence is that Pkg.add and Pkg.update >>> installs versions of some packages that is incompatible with your version >>> of Julia. I think this is a very unfortunate situation for new people >>> evaluating Julia, and the easiest way to solve this us to compile from >>> source or download a nightly release.
