On Friday, May 31, 2013 04:56:11 PM Wietse Venema wrote: > After the confusion that Postfix 2.10 is not Postfix 2.1, maybe it > is time to change the release numbering scheme. > > We could to the Linux thing where 2.mumble was followed by 3.mumble. > > or we could do it like Sun. After releasing Solaris 2.0 .. 2.6, > they changed the numbering scheme with Solaris 7 which was released > way back in 1998. Nowadays, many software distributions change the > major release number frequently, if not every time. > > If we were to change the release numbering scheme like this with > Postfix then we would immediately be free from the pain of getting > sites to adopt Postfix 3.0, because they would no longer expect the > pain of transitioning from Python 2->3, from perl 5->6 and the like. > The next Postfix release would be 11.0, so 3.x would never happen.
>From a packaging perspective, as long as the version number always goes up, it doesn't matter. I don't see any reason to change though (for reasons others have mentioned that I won't bother repeating). Scott K
