[Haskell-cafe] Platform Versioning Policy: upper bounds are not our friends

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > So we are certain that the rounds of failures that led to their being
> > *added* will never happen again?
>
> It would be useful to have some examples of these. I'm not sure we had
>

Upper package versions did not originally exist, and nobody wanted them.
 You can see the result in at least half the packages on Hackage:  upper
versions came in when base got broken up, and when bytestring was merged
into base --- both of which caused massive breakage that apparently even
the people around at the time and involved with it no longer remember.

I'm not going to argue the point though; ignore history and remove them if
you desire.

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