Marc G. Fournier said:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> Personally, I hate the idea of having to write stuff like this example
>> Joe Conway gave the other day from PL/R:
>>
>> #if (CATALOG_VERSION_NO <= 200211021)
>> #define PG_VERSION_73_COMPAT
>> #elif (CATALOG_VERSION_NO <= 200310211)
>> #define PG_VERSION_74_COMPAT
>> #else
>> #define PG_VERSION_75_COMPAT
>> #endif
>
> Why not have seperate branches in CVS for each version? Branch on
> similar dates to the core distribution itself?
>
And thus demolish your argument that it is in the interests of projects to
have independent release dates. And make the task more complex.
All this will do is make life harder. We should be about making it easier.
cheers
andrew