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If your software requires 2 different versions of the same library, there is something deeply wrong with it.

It's fairly common in the compilers/tools world to have automated workflows to test against different tools and libraries.

And they are all needed at the same time?

Yes, you can't keep installing and uninstalling stuff to run tests.

Most of the time diamond dependencies are upstream, not because the software itself requires two versions.