On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 2:36:57 PM UTC-7, Isaac Schlueter wrote:
>
> Matt, Ian, 
>
> It was once said, in the Long Ago Days of the Time Before, 
>
> > Another option might be to let authors add an "enginesStrict" boolean 
> > flag in their package.json which would say, "No, seriously, this WILL 
> > NOT WORK except with the specified versions, so don't even try to use 
> > it." 
>
> How does that strike you?  Then it would be a warning, unless the 
> author says, "No, srsly, I really mean it," in which case, it'd use 
> the current behavior.  (And please don't do that for 0.8.x, because 
> it's probably just going to be annoying in a few months, like how 
> "0.6.x" is now.) 
>

That sounds decent to me. It's a bit more complexity and a bit of a 
band-aid, but if you're okay with it, I'm okay with it. 

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