Re: asdf version proposal

Sean Ross <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
 >>>>>> "SR" == Sean Ross <[email protected]> writes:
 >
 >     SR> Hi all, I've been working on more comprehensive version
 >     SR> support in asdf and i think it's finally ready for public
 >     SR> consumption.
 >
 > [...snip...]
 >
 >
 >     SR> This patch does not address the concept of compatible versions
 >     SR> but I feel that that can be added at a later date.
 >
 > You lost me here.  Can you expand on "compatible versions" (as opposed
 > to, presumably, "versions satisfying version number predicate")?

aargh, poor choice of words. I'm thinking of a situation where you have
version 1.3.1 of system X loaded and you want to load version 1.3.5
If these two version of system X are "compatible" then it should be fine
to load 1.3.5 instead of signalling a continuable error.



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