Re: Finer Extension dependencies

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Finer Extension dependencies
Date: 2012-03-29 19:00:03
Message-ID: 97F9BDE6-D787-4C57-B2D0-CFEA84347B9E@justatheory.com
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On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Robert Haas wrote:

> Frankly, I'm not sure we bet on the right horse in not mandating a
> version numbering scheme from the beginning. But given that we
> didn't, we probably don't want to get too forceful about it too
> quickly. However, we could ease into it by documenting a recommended
> numbering scheme and making features like version-dependencies work
> only when that scheme is used.

PGXN mandates semantic versions for this reason (currently v1.0.0):

http://semver.org/spec/v1.0.0.html

Removes all the ambiguity.

David

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