Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:52:52AM +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> Magnus Hagander wrote: >>> 2) Create a new file with a specific schema. Something like: >>> <version> >>> <version major="8.2" minor="8.2.3" /> >>> <version major="8.1" minor="8.1.8" /> >>> </version> >>> This is the most lightweight solution. >> More like: >> >> <versions> >> <version major="8" minor="2" revision="3" /> >> <version major="8" minor="1" revision="8" /> >> </versions> > > But that doesn't reflect our terminology. Per our own terminology, bioth > 8.1 and 8.2 are major versions. Not only is that what we've been saying for > years, we even documented it at > http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning. Yeah yeah, but terminology aside, having 2 or three digits in each attribute is just wrong! >> But I can't help thinking that we should have some additional values for >> release notes, download sub-URLs (to be appended to the mirror roots) etc. > > Yeah, thus the X in XML :-) :-p > But given that we might want to add things like this, having our own custom > XML format certainly makes a bit more sense, it might be harder to try to > trick it into RSS. Agreed. /D
