Re: [pilot-db-list] (no subject)

[Tom D. <td...@us...>]

On Saturday 12 January 2002 04:15 am, Chalain Marc wrote:

> For this number you decided, you call db2 for the previous version of
> database and db3 for the last one. To keep the coherence with db3 driver i
> give the name 1.3.x . I think it's the better for the future of db we don't
> know if we will have to build a db4 driver. Salut,

Actually, I just called the DB 0.2.x format "OldDB" and nothing else. There 
was actually a 0.1.x series in the early days but it numbered 0.10 through 
0.19 and I switched to the 0.2.x number when I would have reached 0.20. (The 
0.2.x format is really also used by 0.10-0.19 versions as well.) I just 
mention the whole version thing because for me 1.3.0 makes it sound like the 
versions advanced through 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2.

The names db2 and db3 are really internal to DB and the users should never 
know about them. Version 1.0.0 could presumably call the database format 
"db3" internally but the user's would see it as just "DB" in the application 
itself and would never know about it (which is good). "db2" could be seen as 
"DB before 0.3.0" in the dialogs.

Whatever you want is fine by me, but I am just someone who got annoyed when 
Solaris was renamed from 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 to 7 and 8. I guess I just like 
consistency in version numbers. :)

-Tom