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Re: Finer Extension dependencies

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-03-29T19:00:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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