Re: Finer Extension dependencies

On tor, 2012-03-29 at 14:48 -0400, 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.

Or an extension could specify itself which version numbering scheme it
uses.  This just has to be a reference to a type, which in turn could be
semver, debversion, or even just numeric or text (well, maybe name).
Then you'd just need to use the comparison operators of that type to
figure things out.