Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> writes:
> Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> Are there any actual remaining use-cases for that sed step?
> The goal here is to allow extension authors to maintain their version
> number in the Makefile rather than in the Makefile and in the control
> file separately. Having the same version number in more than one place
> never eases maintenance.
Why is it in the makefile at all? If the makefile does need to know it,
why don't we have it scrape the number out of the control file? Or even
more to the point, since when do we need version numbers in extensions?
regards, tom lane
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