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lierdakil / pandoc-crossref

Pandoc filter for cross-references
https://lierdakil.github.io/pandoc-crossref/
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brew version incompatibility #362

Closed piccolbo closed 1 year ago

piccolbo commented 1 year ago

When running pandoc from the latest update in brew one gets

WARNING: pandoc-crossref was compiled with pandoc 2.18 but is being run through 2.19.2. This is not supported. Strange things may (and likely will) happen silently.

Workaround is downgrading to 2.18. Platform is Mac OS monterey. Looks like a new instance of #253

It would be nice to get to the root cause of this instead of fixing breakage every time a pandoc update happens. It certainly isn't good user experience. I personally only do brew downgrades for pandoc and have to research how it's done every time, because it is not a single command, more like 4 commands. In this case specifically, I needed a new feature in 2.19 (I found a way around that). Not sure why there is this tight coupling between two software artifacts, I am not a haskell expert. If the dep can't be made more accepting (>=), then typically they need to be packaged together, taking from my experience with other languages. This is related https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/7637 but it seems to reject a solution to this problem in favor of a completely new, delayed solution for crossreferencing. CC @jgm in case he wants to chip in. Thanks

lierdakil commented 1 year ago

This is something that the homebrew crew needs to figure out, there's not all that much we can do on our end. We (me and @jgm) are not affiliated with homebrew. See #360 and links there for a (very brief) discussion of the topic. Or you might try precompiled binaries on this here releases page if you want.