On 06/02/14 13:58, Rick Miller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Daniel Nebdal <dneb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Rick Miller >> <vmil...@hostileadmin.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Big Lebowski >>> <spankthes...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>>> The ability to install certain package version, instead of >>>> installing simply the latest one. Please, please, pretty >>>> please! :) >>> >>> >>> I echo this sentiment, but I would like to take it a step >>> further and say "a certain version or greater". >>> >>> >> >> I suspect he meant "a certain version, and *not* newer" - >> sometimes you might want to hold back a package. >> > > Correct. My wish is the functionality be extended further to mean "a > certain version *or* newer", encompassing both features. Thus, > allowing him to say "port-1.1", while I say "port-1.4 or newer" or > even "port-1.0 or newer". >
Python's pip has a nice syntax for this, for example:
somepackage>=1.6,<=1.8
Something like this could be adopted. (Disregarding the discussion if
this is technically feasible ATM, I'm sure it will be eventually).
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