| From: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> |
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| To: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, k(at)perrin(dot)nxad(dot)com, PostgreSQL general list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL v7.4 Released |
| Date: | 2003-11-18 03:34:15 |
| Message-ID: | 20031118033415.GA15132@perrin.nxad.com |
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> > 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
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Sean Chittenden
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