[asdf-devel] Buggy release

[Faré]

Looking at packages in quicklisp, it appears that no one explicitly
calls version-satisfies and really relies on the fact that it isn't
the same as version<= (actually, several packages, all written by me,
go through some pains to emulate version<= in spite of only
version-satisfies being available in asdf 2).

On the other hand, 41 different .asd files rely on (:version ...)
constrained dependencies, and may or may not expect a different major
version to be considered as incompatible.

So, is anyone going to complain if I do as Xach suggests and have
version-satisfies be an alias for version<= ?

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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What about making version-satisfies return t?
>>
> I could do (and implemented that as version<=), but
> that would violate the previous contract.
> Not that I am aware of anyone relying on the previous contract.
>
> What do people here think is the right thing?
>
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