Re: Package naming conventions

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm.poure@freesurf.fr]
> Sent: 09 August 2003 20:25
> To: Dave Page; Raphaël Enrici
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.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
checkedout CVS with the tag I created. The date is less meaningful then, but the version isn't.  

Just my $0.02 :-)

/D