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It's interesting that what they came up with is better than what's out there for other languages.

Yeah, you have the "v2" / forever v0 problem. But it's still better than what I need to deal with when using npm or (doing sign of the cross) anything with python.



Russ Cox's "minimum version selection" was a complete reinvention of Apache Ivy's "Latest" version resolver.

They basically reinvented maven, if you examine the version resolution plumbing of both tools.


Looking at https://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile/... I don't see how this is the same as minimal version selection.





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