On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> 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. > > Wietse > I've always found the OpenBSD method the easiest. after 2.9 comes 3.0 then 3.1....3.9 then 4.0.
