I was reading [this new article](https://blog.golang.org/versioning-proposal) 
about the proposal for package management in Go, and started wondering about a 
particular aspect that is mentioned: partial code upgrades.

> It is of course possible to build systems that use semantic versioning 
> without semantic import versioning, but only by giving up either partial code 
> upgrades or import uniqueness. Cargo allows partial code upgrades by giving 
> up import uniqueness: a given import path can have different meanings in 
> different parts of a large build. Dep ensures import uniqueness by giving up 
> partial code upgrades: all packages involved in a large build must find a 
> single agreed-upon version of a given dependency, raising the possibility 
> that large programs will be unbuildable.

Nimble (and Nim itself for that matter) don't support a dependency on two 
different versions of the same package. Is this a problem that will bite us in 
the future?

I'm curious what everyone's thoughts are.

Reply via email to