Andy Ferris

I agree - I think we should definitely allow minor upgrades _by default_, since semver states they are non-breaking. Why go through all of this trouble to implement semver and...

That's a nice idea.

I was wondering - do we need a new `stringformat` function or can we just add keyword arguments to our `string` methods? E.g. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/25804

> Allowing julia to download proprietary programs is another. I mean... users can already just wrap a compiled library with `ccall`... there's no reason we wouldn't accept a wrapper library...

Maybe I missed or misunderstood something fundamental, but I'm seriously worried by something, and I was hoping for an explanation. SemVer states that minor releases are to be backward compatible....

I too am having issues with unexpectedly depending on CUDA. In my case I am using PackageCompiler - here's a (cut down) snippet: ``` julia> using PackageCompiler; create_app(".", "dist")' PackageCompiler:...

> i don't think there's even a way to pin the version to avoid getting these? @nickrobinson251 I did manage to pin both XGBoost at 2.0.2 and XGBoost_jll at 1.6.2+0,...

As a follow up of this, I see there are some weakdep stuff in the Project.toml, and when installing on Julia 1.9.2 I get this: ``` (@v1.9) pkg> add XGBoost...

Ah I see - thank you.

Cool - this is an interesting package. I can see how this could remove friction for users. Just a thought - for functions that are widely useful, are present in...