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[Jason Flatt <jasonflatt AT wizard.com>]

On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:14 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Robin Cook said:
> > For this to work would we need to keep several version of different
> > spells around then?
> >
> > CuZnDragon
> > Robin Cook
>
> Yes, that's part of the complexity for spells.  For example, we'd have
> guile-1.6.1 and guile-1.5.0 (for gnucash), then GNUCash would have (in
> it's DEPENDS):
>
> depends  gnucash >= 1.3.0 and <= 1.5.0 (or some similar output, but this
> is the general idea).
>
> I'm not sure if it's really worth it (I only know of, off the top of my
> head, one spell which would benefit from this, my much exampled GNUCash.
> ;), so it may not even be worth the effort).
>
> What do others think?
>
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle


There are actually many programs that require specific versions of other 
programs to operate correctly.  It's just that most of those programs fall 
within a variable range that rarely gets exceeded.


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