Re: Finer Extension dependencies

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: 2012-04-02 18:32:26
Message-ID: C23C7D68-7904-4A7B-A1B1-253E6750A9F4@justatheory.com
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On Apr 2, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Or an extension could specify itself which version numbering scheme it
> uses. This just has to be a reference to a type, which in turn could be
> semver, debversion, or even just numeric or text (well, maybe name).
> Then you'd just need to use the comparison operators of that type to
> figure things out.

Sounds like a lot of work for core to maintain various version comparison schemes…

David

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