Relax dependency versions?

[tlnagy]

I'm stuck on a broken version of Distributions because Gadfly's dependencies are a little too restrictive as of #1283. My understanding is that currently the max allowed version of Distributions is v0.19.1 even though v0.20.0 is out and fixes my problem and it's due to the hard caps in the [compat] section of Project.toml

Gadfly.jl/Project.toml

Line 40 in 8813880

Distributions = "0.16, 0.17, 0.18, 0.19"

I suspect we want to use inequalitys instead of the default caret values: https://julialang.github.io/Pkg.jl/dev/compatibility/#Inequality-specifiers-1

[Mattriks]

Related: JuliaRegistries/General#647

[bjarthur]

if Gadfly's tests work for you with Distributions 0.20, then submit a PR to Gadfly which adds that version to the compat section of Project.toml. @non-Jedi made a convincing argument (to me) that we shouldn't leave the version bounds open ended.

[tlnagy]

@non-Jedi made a convincing argument (to me) that we shouldn't leave the version bounds open ended.

That argument makes sense. Alright, let me run the tests and see how they perform.