Re: Quick Extensions Question

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:30 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
>> Requires: package
>> Requires: package >= minversion
>> Requires: package <= maxversion
>> Requires: package = exactversion
>>
>> The usefulness of the first two should be obvious, but the third and
>> fourth are needed as well.
>
> In the long term, perhaps. But for right now, just >= would address 90% of the problem. That's all CPAN modules have,
andwhile it's occasionally annoying, it's *very* occasionally. 
>
>> I think it's important that we don't get too confident that we've
>> solved this problem in its full generality.  I very much doubt that
>> that's the case.
>
> Who said anything about full generality? I'm interested in a 90% (or even 99%) solution.

It's pretty important that we don't design ourselves into a corner here.

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