From: | "Sergio A(dot) Kessler" <sergiokessler(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Version Numbering |
Date: | 2010-08-21 17:06:47 |
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On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Sergio A. Kessler
> <sergiokessler(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> on every single planet of the universe, except the one called
>> "postgrearth", whose inhabitants breathe sql and eat messages from
>> postgresql mailing lists... :-)
>>
>> most people I know, think 8.1 is just 8.0 with some fixes...
>
> Really? is Linux 2.6 just 2.5 with some fixes? Glibc 2.Was Windows 3.5
> just 3.4 with some fixes? Gnome 2.28 just 2.27 with some fixes?
really !,
they don't have *any* idea of the version of the kernel, they know
about redhat 4, redhat 5 and so on...
glibc ? what is that ?
is not something they use... :-)
sure, we know better, but the common guy in the computer field, does
not read every mailing list on earth...
> In fact perusing dpkg -l output the *only* software package I find
> that bumps the major version every single release is Emacs. It stands
> out as an outlier as soon as you say version 23 -- and that was
> despite a hiatus when version 18.59 was the newest release for years.
imho, emacs does it rigth...
regards,
/sak
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