[chef-dev] CHEF-3788: More restrictive gem dependencies?

[Bryan McLellan < >]

Grégory has suggested in CHEF-3788  that the gem dependencies be more 
restrictive after the recent incident where Moneta 0.7.0 was released and the 
API was not backward compatible (CHEF-3721).

In the past we've been restrictive about gems that have had similar issues, 
particularly with slow responses, like JSON, but overall we have been more 
optimistic to get the benefits of new releases of libraries without having to 
make a new release of Chef. In the case of JSON, we occasionally have tickets 
where people want to bump the version because we're starting to cause 
dependency resolution failures with other tools that use Chef as a library.

But maybe it would help if we were at least pessmistic about major version 
changes, e.g. ~> x.y.  Anyone have other opinions to add?

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http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3788
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3721