On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:24:27AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > 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?
We *absolutely* need version numbers in extensions. People will want to have a certain version, or a certain minimum version, etc., etc., etc., just as they do for any other software. Seriously, are you OK? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
