Re: PostgreSQL v7.4 Released - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: PostgreSQL v7.4 Released
Date
Msg-id 20031117234738.W731@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL v7.4 Released  (Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL v7.4 Released  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote:

> > > Somebody please explain to me what the hell a difference it makes if
> > > we have a v in front of the version number?
> >
> > It isn't standard practice.  I agree with Peter on this.
> >
> > Also, as I have asked before, please make sure that future releases sort
> > in the correct order.  It makes life much easier for those of us who
> > make packages and the many users who install packages.
> >
> > The cycle of releases we have had were:
> > 7.4beta[1-5]
> > 7.4RC[12]
> > 7.4
> >
> > These sort in reverse (ASCII) order to their real priority.
> >
> > So the series of Debian packages were numbered:
> > 7.3.99.7.4beta[1-5]
> > 7.3.99.7.4rc[12]
> > 7.4
> >
> > I hope users who were tracking these understood the relationship between
> > Marc's numbers and mine.
>
> Agreed, I'd like to see the v dropped from everything as well.  It's
> not crucial, but I've stumbled over it numerous times.  -sc

But there is no v in any of the release files ... just checked to make
sure, and even the 6.x branch didn't have any v in the file names ... the
only place I've ever used the 'v' is in emails ...

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