On 2016-05-13 10:34, Thom Brown wrote:
> On 13 May 2016 at 16:29, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, one potential issues is that there may be projects which have
>>> already coded in 9.6 checks for feature support.
>>
>> I suspect that won't be an issue (I never heard of it being for 7.5,
>> which was released as 8.0 - but is smattered all over pgAdmin 3 for
>> example) - largely because in such apps we're almost always checking
>> for a version greater than or less than x.y.
>>
>> I imagine the bigger issue will be apps that have been written
>> assuming the first part of the version number is only a single digit.
>
> Is that likely? That would be remarkably myopic, but I guess possible.
>
> Thom
We (FreeBSD) had lots of that kind of fallout when 9->10. Autoconf, and
other tools
thought we were a.out and not ELF.
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