| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Quick Extensions Question |
| Date: | 2011-03-03 18:30:59 |
| Message-ID: | 25C367AF-7071-4C2B-A497-54DCBB3E4EF8@kineticode.com |
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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, and while 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.
David
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