<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>On Nov 19, 2016, at 23:48, Anders Bertelrud <<a href="mailto:anders@apple.com">anders@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><span style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class="">Hello Swift community,</span><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class="">The review of "SE-0145: Package Manager Version Pinning" begins again after revisions, starting now and running through November 28th. 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A glance, a quick reading, or an in-depth study?</span><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class="">More information about the Swift evolution process is available at</span><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular; white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/process.md" style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/process.md</a><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class="">Thank you,</span><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class="">Anders Bertelrud</span><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class="">Review Manager</span><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular;" class=""></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>swift-evolution-announce mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:swift-evolution-announce@swift.org">swift-evolution-announce@swift.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution-announce">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution-announce</a></span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Just to pick a couple nits...<div><br><div>I'm not sure "pinning" is the best word, but I don't have any thoughts on what would be better.</div><div><br></div><div>Does the pinning info have to be in an optional file? Would it be better to have it be an optional part of the manifest? There'd be one less file to carry around.</div><div><br></div><div>I didn't follow the discussion thread very closely... If either of these "issues" were debated there, I do *not* want to start rehashing them. Furthermore, IMHO both are pretty minor (especially the first one... it's completely subjective).</div></div><div><br></div><div>+1, either way</div><div><br></div><div>- Dave Sweeris </div></body></html>