Re: [GENERAL] programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Andrew Hammond <andrew(dot)george(dot)hammond(at)gmail(dot)com>, CAJ CAJ <pguser(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version
Date: 2007-04-10 10:18:52
Message-ID: 20070410101852.GC24976@svr2.hagander.net
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:52:52AM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > 2) Create a new file with a specific schema. Something like:
> > <version>
> > <version major="8.2" minor="8.2.3" />
> > <version major="8.1" minor="8.1.8" />
> > </version>
> > This is the most lightweight solution.
>
> More like:
>
> <versions>
> <version major="8" minor="2" revision="3" />
> <version major="8" minor="1" revision="8" />
> </versions>

But that doesn't reflect our terminology. Per our own terminology, bioth
8.1 and 8.2 are major versions. Not only is that what we've been saying for
years, we even documented it at
http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning.

> But I can't help thinking that we should have some additional values for
> release notes, download sub-URLs (to be appended to the mirror roots) etc.

Yeah, thus the X in XML :-)
But given that we might want to add things like this, having our own custom
XML format certainly makes a bit more sense, it might be harder to try to
trick it into RSS.

//Magnus

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