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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