> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Karl Forner <karl.for...@gmail.com>wrote:
> [...]
>
> - "exact deps versions":
>> will put a lot of burden of the developer.
>>
>
> Not really, in my opinion, if you have the proper tools. Most likely when
> you develop any given version of your package you'll use certain versions
> of other packages, probably the most recent at that time.
>
> If there is a build tool that just puts these version numbers into the
> DESCRIPTION file, you don't need to do anything extra.
>
I of course assumed that this part was automatic.
>
> In fact, it is easier for the developer, because if you work on your
> release for a month, at the end you don't have to make sure that your
> package works with packages that were updated in the meanwhile.
>
Hmm, what if your package depends on packages A and B, and that A depends
on C v1.0 and B depends on C v1.1 ? This is just an example but I imagine
that will lead to a lot of complexities.
>
> Gabor
>
> [...]
>
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