Re: Version Numbering -- The great debate - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gaetano Mendola
Subject Re: Version Numbering -- The great debate
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Msg-id 410CD04A.2030103@bigfoot.com
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In response to Re: Version Numbering -- The great debate  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
>>What was the rule for increasing the first number after just before
>>7.0?
> 
> 
> That was just to avoid having to release a 6.6.6, which Jan had clearly 
> been working towards. :-)
> 
> Seriously, major version jumps correspond to epoch-like changes, like 
> when the code moved out of Berkeley, or when we switched from bug 
> fixing to adding features.  Maybe the next epoch would be after a 
> hostile takeover of firebird.  But right now I see no epoch change, 
> just a potential for confusing users.  Consistency and humbleness can 
> be a virtue.

Have a win32 native implementation is not a epoch change about you ?


Regards
Gaetano Mendola






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