"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> A while ago, I asked if .0 releases could be versioned with three
> digits instead of two. That is, it would be "8.4.0" instead of "8.4".
We've been doing that for some time, no? A quick look at the CVS
history shows that 8.0.0 and up were tagged that way.
> This is to make the format consistent with maintenance releases ("8.4.1", etc.). I thought this was generally agreed
upon,but maybe not, because I just went to build the latest 9.0 beta and saw that the version number is "9.0beta4".
.0 is for releases, not betas. I see no need for an extra number in
beta versions.
regards, tom lane
