Oliver, Its definitely safe to have it on 0.4. Are you putting it in /REQUIRE or /test/REQUIRE? You probably want to put it in the latter. (Apologies if I'm telling you something you already know!)
On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 8:04:59 AM UTC-5, Oliver Schulz wrote: > > Thanks, Tony! > > I'll just keep BaseTestNext in REQUIRE, then. > > Might be a useful feature for the future though, on occasion, to > be able to mark a line in REQUIRE Julia-version dependent. > > > Cheers, > > Oliver > > On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 3:42:01 PM UTC+1, Tony Kelman wrote: >> >> Not easily. I think it's usually harmleas to have BaseTestNext installed >> on 0.5. >> >> If you want to conditionally depend on a deprecated package that has a >> julia version upper bound, I think you'd need to work with the package >> author to make a separate branch with a basic deprecated stub to be used >> with the newer version of julia. >> >
