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It's not as bad as cabal back in the day. Nonetheless I have run into the diamond dependency problem in practice. Their solution is unprincipled and there's no

• damnyou 7y ago
  Do you mean passing a struct from e.g. clap 2 into clap 3? Yeah that won't work directly, nor should it in my opinion. If it is frequently required, projects can and should provide a compatibility layer which does any necessary conversions.
  • vmchale 7y ago
    > Do you mean passing a struct from e.g. clap 2 into clap 3? Yeah that won't work directly, nor should it in my opinion. I agree! But it shouldn't fail at compile time with a vexing error message. It should fail to resolve dependencies when calculating a build plan.
    • damnyou 7y ago
      That would seem to completely disallow any compatibility layers, which seems like a bad outcome. Unless you had some sort of solution in mind for that? I agree that the error message sucks, for what it's worth.