So if I want my package to work with any version starting with Julia 0.3 up
through master, what should I use?

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Iain Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:

> I still see people putting `julia 0.3-` in their REQUIRES file, I guess
> because people thing its means `>= 0.3`.
>
> What it actually means is `This can be installed with any version >= any
> pre-release version julia 0.3`, which isn't something that anyone should be
> doing at this point.
>
> Nothing bad will happen (probably), but, probably best not to all the same.
>
> If for some reason you are making a package that only works with Julia 0.4
> though, for example, `julia 0.4-` would make sense (until Julia 0.4 is
> released).
>
> Here is the relevant section of the manual:
> http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/packages/?highlight=version#man-package-requirements
>
> Thanks,
> Iain
>

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