On 10/14/05, John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > Which, for a long time, I've always thought was a horrible thing to
> > do. +1 on fixing that.
>
> Patches welcome? ;-)
>
> Seriously, there is a necessary tension between:
>
> a) being flexible with versions of packages you depend on;
> b) being trusting that the packages you depend on won't break your code
> when they make a new release.
>
> If I'm not way off base, libsvn_ra_dav is _highly_ dependent on the
> operation of the Neon library, just as the whole project is with APR.
> Having specific, tested versions is the more conservative policy and
> probably is a wise one as well. Users have a way to ignore the
> limitations if they so choose.
>
> That said, I'm +0 on changing the regex to something more relaxed.
Hm, maybe my understanding is off. I thought that while Joe Orton
sometimes breaks API/ABI compatibility moving from 0.X to 0.Y, he
never does so when going from 0.X.M to 0.X.N.
In other words, I think it's safe to leave the 3rd release component
as a variable, but be strict about the 2nd release component.
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Received on Fri Oct 14 20:55:26 2005