#216 · pantry-pm/pantry

Problem

pantry install parses ^0.17.0-dev as the stable core 0.17.0, then excludes every prerelease candidate. Zig is also absent from the live-version resolver even though the Pantry registry publishes current development builds. Craft therefore cannot reproduce its declared toolchain through Pantry.

Observed while building home-lang/craft v0.0.46 after pantry-pm/pantry v0.10.43 installation.

Required contract

Preserve prerelease and build metadata when parsing a version constraint.
Compare numeric cores without rejecting a prerelease requested by the constraint.
Include live Pantry registry versions for Zig constraints.
Select the newest matching concrete registry version without falling back outside the requested range.
Cover development, stable, x86/x64 core, and unsupported constraint behavior with tests.
Verify Craft can install and build its ^0.17.0-dev toolchain through Pantry.