[Haskell-cafe] Failing to install hxt: tagsoup versioning

Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fischer at web.de
Mon Jan 25 09:17:41 EST 2010


Am Montag 25 Januar 2010 14:31:07 schrieb Malcolm Wallace:
> > Minor version bumps which leave the API unchanged shouldn't break
> > anything, http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy
> >
> > Neil, in this case i think, tagsoup's version shouldn't have changed
> > from 0.6 to minor 0.8 while exported definitions such as
> > "optLookupEntity" were removed.
>
> Changing version number 0.6 -> 0.8 is a major release increment, not a
> minor one, according the package versioning policy linked to.

Which I found rather irritating initially.
I had 'learned' that version numbers go

        Major.Minor.Patchlevel[.optionalLineNoise]

and then coming to terms with

        Major.major.Minor[.optionalStuff]

took a couple of days.

>
> Regards,
>      Malcolm



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