On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Steph Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>  >> The first step in fixing the core<->pecl relationship? \o/
>
>  That's the basic idea, yes.
>
>
>  >> But what about extensions that are symlinked to core? Will they need
>  >> to update their version info during core release cycles?
>  >> It obviously shouldn't have a -dev version when distributed with PHP..
>  >> Is it up to the RM to hunt those extensions down and make sure the
>  >> version info is accurate?
>  >
>  > Just removing the "-dev" in the version number would be wrong (as is
>  > symlinking), a Stable PHP release should include "stable" extensions.
>  > Not dev versions of the extension. So one of the ideas is to fetch the
>  > last stable extension release for a PHP release, but well, then there's
>  > the problem that everybody (people using snaps, people using CVS, ...)
>  > end up with different versions which makes QA hard. (not to mention bug
>  > hunting trouble with people using the latest release but updated a
>  > single extension, ....)
>
>  But we already have those problems now. Labelling the version just makes it
>  more obvious that we have those problems :)

Exactly. So lets deal with one problem at a time Johannes.
But Steph: Your RFC doesn't mention how to deal with the problem.
During development the extension should be -dev... so who is
responsible to change it back during PHP releases?

-Hannes

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