[Jani Taskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> On Thu, 17 May 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>
> >> I don't agree. Have you noticed the thread about domxml currently running
> >> in php-dev@? Wouldn't that justify a 4.1? What would?
> >
> >No, I don't think a single extension should affect the PHP version number
> >to that extent. But I do think we should be moving towards versioning the
> >extensions individually.
>
> Could you explain how having separate version numbers for extensions would
> help at all? As long as the extensions are distributed with the main PHP
> package, that is.
It doesn't help of course.
> As long as these extensions are in there, I think changing any of their
> API's is a justification for 4.x release.
Again, "this is how it's always been done". A single extension has
never caused a minor version bump, and I don't see it happening (the
only extension I could see remotely justifying that would be
ext/standard, which is part of the core anyway...)
It is becoming painfully obvious what kind of release nightmare PHP is
cornering itself into. The only way out of this mess is to split PHP
into smaller projects with their own release cycles, which is what I
wanted to do with 4.1 in the first place. Until we do that, we're
stuck with our Cathedral, and will continue having RC/QA periods of at
least four weeks on micro releases.
So MNSHO is that 4.1 should be the split, and nothing but. We can
release 4.2 just a couple of months after to address the other things
people have signed up for 4.1 now.
- Stig
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Stig Sæther Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway
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