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Re: Extension Packaging

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-04-24T21:59:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Apr 24, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Hmm ... it's sufficient, but I think people are going to be confused as
> to proper usage if you call two different things the "version".  In RPM
> terminology there's a clear difference between "version" and "release";
> maybe some similar wording should be adopted here?  Or use "major
> version" versus "minor version"?

I could "distribution version" =~ s/version/release/; Frankly, the way the terminology is now it's halfway-there already.

So distribution semver release 1.1.0 might contain extension semver version 1.0.0.

Hrm, Still rather confusing.

Best,

David