rubygems/rubygems — Issue #255: Spec validation should warn when prerelease dependencies exist
Author: drbrain
Created: 2012-01-05 19:23:34+00:00
State: open
Labels: category - other

A dependency of `~> 1.rc1` does not behave how users expect as it does not mean `< 2, >= 1.rc1`.

Dependencies on pre-release versions should be frowned upon as the prerelease version may have incompatible behavior with the final release or bugs.

See rails/rails#4317