RE: [PHP-DEV] A suggestion regarding stabel vs. experimental on the extension level

> Stig Venaas wrote: > > I like this idea. It should be possible to tag some extensions as > > experimental and change the status to stable without actually moving > > anything. One way could be to have an extra check in the separate > > config.m4 files, or perhaps better, alter config-stubs to only include > > the config.m4 file if there isn't a file called say .experimental in > > the extension directory. > > as moving files as a CVS user results in loss of history information > and moving the *,v files on the server requires too much privileges > i'd agree to the 'marker file' solution > > but we should not hide the file, lets call it EXPERIMENTAL or > even stronger like WARNING-EXPERIMENTAL with some human readable > information inside and lets have ext_skel create it by default > > the information should be as obvious as possible and not hidden Personally I like the idea of when configuring using --enable-experimental-mod or --with-experimental-mod this makes it very clear to the user that it is experimental. James