Re: Proposed revision to ingres extension

On 9/11/07, Grant Croker <grant.croker@ingres.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I work on the the pecl/ingres extension and have been working on > bringing it up to date. Unfortunately some of the changes have required > a change in the order of parameters to certain functions. The main > driver for this change was the addition of support for multiple > concurrent result sets. > > Previously the driver would close any active statements when > ingres_query was called. In order to manage this change there is a new > resource that is used for a result set returned ingres_query(). Where as > before the ingres_fetch_{row|object|array} functions would take the link > resource to fetch the result, now these functions require the result > resource be passed. In addition the link resource was an optional > parameter to these functions, it is now mandatory. > > After asking on #php.pecl what to do about this BC breakage, a new > extension name was suggested, ingres2. I now have code ready to submit > into pecl, see http://croker.net/php/ingres2-0.9.0.tgz. > > If there are no objections can someone create a pecl/ingres2 directory > on cvs.php.net and give me karma? Why not simply bump the version to 2.x? That's how we define possible BC breaks in PHP (when we break BC :) and it is also well known in PEAR. Doing so you can simply create a branch for 1.x (INGRES_1 for example) and use HEAD for 2.x. The CVS history is also kept (and that's a real good thing :) Cheers, --Pierre