Matthew Peters wrote: > I think we should revisit this decision about working in a branch - I > think we have it the wrong way around. I think it would be more useful > if we developed in HEAD so that people automatically got the latest > dll, and the special case - the hard one - would be if people wanted > only the version that went out with the release. We could preserve the > dll that went with the release here on the phpsoa site.
Matthew, you've probably forgotten the reason it's done this way - the automated build system for Windows extensions (pecl4win) can only work by taking the code in HEAD. It ignores all tags and branches. Therefore if the latest code for the SDO extension went into HEAD, then the downloadable dll would be automatically updated with code that had not been generally verified or documented. This does make the setup less than ideal, but given the position, I think it's right that the burden should be on the developers rather than making things confusing for the users. (Also I don't know why Simon claims that doing the merge is very difficult - I've always done this for previous releases, and it's only a problem when there are major changes to the directory structure, otherwise it's quite simple if you have appropriate tools.) If anyone feels like fixing this, then IMHO they should be spending their time working on the pecl4win tooling to support tagging and thus benefiting the whole pecl community. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "phpsoa" group. To post to this group, send email to phpsoa@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/phpsoa?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
