Re: Extension Packaging

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Extension Packaging
Date: 2011-04-24 21:59:01
Message-ID: 60D048F2-76D1-4426-B358-A28B862AAA3F@kineticode.com
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On Apr 24, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Hmm ... it's sufficient, but I think people are going to be confused as
> to proper usage if you call two different things the "version". In RPM
> terminology there's a clear difference between "version" and "release";
> maybe some similar wording should be adopted here? Or use "major
> version" versus "minor version"?

I could "distribution version" =~ s/version/release/; Frankly, the way the terminology is now it's halfway-there already.

So distribution semver release 1.1.0 might contain extension semver version 1.0.0.

Hrm, Still rather confusing.

Best,

David

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