Re: Version Numbering - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: Version Numbering
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In response to Re: Version Numbering  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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Re: Version Numbering
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On Aug 20, 2010, at 11:47 AM, David Fetter wrote:

>> No idea what you mean by that, but generally it's a bad idea to
>> switch from dotted-integer version numbers and numeric version
>> numbers. See Perl (Quel désastre!).
>
> I'm thinking that after 9.0, the first release of the next major
> version should be 10.0, and the one after that, 11.0, etc., etc.

Oh. Good luck with that. I disagree, FWIW.

> The current system give people the completely false impression that
> 7.0 and 7.4 are somehow similar.

On what planet?

Best,

David



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