Re: Version Numbering

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:12:56AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote:
> Hackers,
>
> A while ago, I asked if .0 releases could be versioned with three
> digits instead of two. That is, it would be "8.4.0" instead of
> "8.4". This is to make the format consistent with maintenance
> releases ("8.4.1", etc.). I thought this was generally agreed upon,
> but maybe not, because I just went to build the latest 9.0 beta and
> saw that the version number is "9.0beta4".
>
> Would it be possible to *always* use three integers? So the next
> release would be "9.0.0beta5" or "9.0.0rc1"? In addition to being
> more consistent, it also means that PostgreSQL would be adhering to
> Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org/), which is a very simple
> format that's internally consistent. I'm planning to require
> semantic versioning for PGXN, and it'd be nice if the core could do
> the same thing (it will make it nicer for specifying dependencies on
> core contrib modules, for example).

+1 for three-number versions...well, until we really see the light and
go to two-number versions. 8.3 and 8.4 are different enough that they
shouldn't even mildly appear the same, for example.

Cheers,
David (Oh, how silly! You actually want Frobozz 3.1.4.1.5.2.6, not 3.1.4.1.5.2.5!).
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