Re: Finer Extension dependencies - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: Finer Extension dependencies
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Msg-id 97F9BDE6-D787-4C57-B2D0-CFEA84347B9E@justatheory.com
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In response to Re: Finer Extension dependencies  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Robert Haas wrote:

> Frankly, I'm not sure we bet on the right horse in not mandating a
> version numbering scheme from the beginning.  But given that we
> didn't, we probably don't want to get too forceful about it too
> quickly.  However, we could ease into it by documenting a recommended
> numbering scheme and making features like version-dependencies work
> only when that scheme is used.

PGXN mandates semantic versions for this reason (currently v1.0.0):
 http://semver.org/spec/v1.0.0.html

Removes all the ambiguity.

David



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