Re: Version Numbering -- The great debate

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> What was the rule for increasing the first number after just before
>> 7.0?
>
> That was just to avoid having to release a 6.6.6, which Jan had clearly
> been working towards. :-)
>
> Seriously, major version jumps correspond to epoch-like changes, like
> when the code moved out of Berkeley, or when we switched from bug
> fixing to adding features.  Maybe the next epoch would be after a
> hostile takeover of firebird.  But right now I see no epoch change,
> just a potential for confusing users.  Consistency and humbleness can
> be a virtue.

Okay, just to pop in here ...

I agree with Peter (re: features) ... but, I do think that this release 
could be said to have an 'epoch-like' change ... we now support Windows 
natively.  Up until now, we've been a *Unix* database (I don't care if 
that Unix happens to be Solaris, Linux or SCO ... its all *Unix*) ...

Based on that (and that alone), I'd argue for an 8.0 release ...

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