What was breaking in 0.16 and 0.17 ?

[lrnv]

Hey,

I have trouble understanding why the PR merged in 0.16 and 0.17 were breaking ?

• If they were not breaking, these releases should have been 0.15.5 and 0.15.6
• If they broke something, I'd like to know what to check that my package test suite (depending on TaylorSeries.jl) covers the change correctly.

Could you clarify the matter for me please ?

[lbenet]

Thanks for reaching out. #347 introduced a new method zero! which is widely used now, and #333 a bunch of methods for Taylor1{TaylorN{T}} mixtures, aimed to improve performance; you are right that they are not (too) breaking. Also, #346 fixed a Taylor1 constructor bug for mixtures. All that, and still being in major version 0, I think are sufficient for tagging a new minor version. Sorry if that caused troubles in your packages...

[lrnv]

There is no troubles in my packages, it is just that i wanted to ensure that the usage I had of TaylorSeries.jl did not broke in a way that i would not test for.

So if you tell me that nothing was really breaking, this simplifies the matter for me and i'll merge the compat bounds. Thanks a lot for the explanation !

[lbenet]

I suggest to have a look on #346, because it fixed a constructor method. Aside from that, I think everything should be fine.

EDIT: Corrected the PR reference

[lrnv]

You meant #346 I think.
I have checked out and this constructor change does not affect my usage. This is Ok for me, you may close this (or keep it open for further reference? as you want.)

[PerezHz]

Maybe worth mentioning: changes introduced by version 0.17 were breaking enough for TaylorIntegration, where we make heavy use of mutating functions and operations on "mixture"-types (e.g., Taylor1{TaylorN{Float64}}), and #347 in particular broke some tests where such features are used. But if you're not working with such mixtures, then probably these changes were not breaking for your packages.

[lbenet]

If it is ok with you @lrnv, I'll close this issue...

[lrnv]

Yes please close. Ty for the details !