[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0145: Package Manager Version Pinning

[Daniel Duan]

On Nov 2, 2016, at 3:46 PM, Martin Waitz via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>> What is your evaluation of the proposal?
> 
> +1 for using reproducible versions of dependencies
> -1 for the actual proposal
> 
> My problem with this proposal is that it tries to please everybody by introducing options everywhere.
> …
> We should just drop all these problems and design a system which works for all use-cases
> without having to manually pin dependencies.

The second half of the sentence contradicts with the first half. What if I need to only pin some of the dependencies, have have the rest update automatically?