| From: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | <jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr>, Raphaël Enrici <blacknoz(at)club-internet(dot)fr> |
| Cc: | <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Package naming conventions |
| Date: | 2003-08-09 20:57:12 |
| Message-ID: | 03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B844B412@mail.vale-housing.co.uk |
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr]
> Sent: 09 August 2003 20:25
> To: Dave Page; Raphaël Enrici
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Package naming conventions
>
>
> On Friday 08 August 2003 16:09, Dave Page wrote:
> > What do other projects do?
>
> Some projects like Wine use date time for release numbers.
> Very few projects
> use dates. It would solve many problems in my opinion, because anyone
> understands a date.
>
> Release number + date gives you a precise information at the
> first glance.
It makes sense for snapshots, but say I build beta 2 tomorrow, and Hiroshi builds the FreeBSD port on Monday, having checked out CVS with the tag I created. The date is less meaningful then, but the version isn't.
Just my $0.02 :-)
/D
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