postfix port version numbering -- suggestions wanted
MikeM
zlists at mgm51.com
Wed Apr 28 12:45:09 PDT 2004
On 4/28/2004 at 2:20 PM Vivek Khera wrote:
|During the freeze, postfix 2.1 was released, and postfix 2.2
|"development" branch was started. It is fairly self-evident that the
|postfix-current port should become the 2.2 version. What is not clear
|is how to handle the transition from the 2.0 to 2.1 as the "release"
|version.
|
|Currently there are three postfix ports: postfix1, postfix, and
|postfix-current. Obviously, enough people still run postfix 1.x to
|need a postfix1 port. So my thought is to make a postfix20 port for
|the now old 2.0 line, and have the postfix port be the 2.1 release.
|This way people can upgrade as they see fit, and if they have a burning
|desire to still run 2.0.x, they can. Or is there any point in having a
|2.0 sitting about? They're totally backward compatible.
|
|What do other postfix users out there think? I'm holding off
|submitting the PR's until we decide on what to do.
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postfix1 - leave as it is.
postfix - should always point to what Wietse calls the "Official release"
version. Currently, that is 2.1 Patchlevel 0.
postfix20 - can point to the last official patchlevel release of postfix
2.0.x if enough people need it.
postfix-current - should point to what Wietse calls an "Experimental
release" version. Currently the 2.2 codebase.
My $0.02.
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