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This is indeed a very good idea. In Julia, the package author defines the range of supported Julia version. Most package actually just say "version 0.6 or later

This is indeed a very good idea. In Julia, the package author defines the range of supported Julia version. Most package actually just say "version 0.6 or later". The JuliaDB package was just been updated preventing the installation on Julia 0.7 or 1.0: https://github.com/JuliaComputing/JuliaDB.jl/commit/8bf3057df154b7d0b592248bb3be98171dd28738 https://github.com/JuliaComputing/JuliaDB.jl/commit/8bf3057d... A automatic check as in R would indeed a better choice.

tavert 8y ago
That will only prevent installation of master of the package or the immediate next few versions on 0.7. The old package versions without a julia upper bound remain available so users on 0.7 or 1.0 will just be held back to old versions of JuliaDB until a new release without an upper bound gets made.