Re: [Tcllib-devel] Version numbers ! ...

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Ca...@ph... said:
> My memory of version arithmetic was that "package require FOO 1.0"
> means that 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.8, ... are all accepted, but 0.9 is not.
> Have I had that wrong all along? 

The discrepancy is not between [package require] and [package provide],
but rather between [package ifneeded] and [package provide].  The package's
index script (which executes [package ifneeded]) is expected to be an
exact match in version number to the package itself.


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