Just simply `julia 0.3`

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Jacob Quinn <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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