Re: Re: ; arg seperator

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:55:52AM +0200, Jani Taskinen wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Alexander Bokovoy wrote: > > >There is one problem which could come dangerous for extensions in > >future: change made a week ago in configure macros: AC_ADD_* -> > >PHP_ADD_* This change was made in HEAD branch but PHP_4_0_5 wasn't > >reflected. It means that external extensions (PHP-GTK, Midgard, APC and > >others) now in hard situation: they will be broken with CVS snapshots > >(but will work with 4.0.4pl1, 4.0.5). And then they will eventually work > >with 4.0.6 but be broken with previous ones. IMO, for external > >extensions latest version of PHP should not be 'must' requirement, > >people are conservative usually and would not replace main engine > >without too much need. > > Why do you see it as a problem? They should be doing their own > releases after our releases. ie. They should say that this version > works with PHP 4.0.5. People should know that when they get > the bleeding edge..it might not work at all.. There have been also > other changes (e.g. in Zend) which might break those extensions. > So I don't really see this renaming as a big problem. I'm not against renaming, I'm warning that CVS and release version will use different macros so extensions will be in trouble till next release based on HEAD branch. > This renaming was only done because the configure system is getting pretty > big and those macros looked like autoconf one's, a fact that confused me > (only me? :) many times. Now if someone would be so kind and documented > the usage of those macros a bit better. :-) If so, why this change didn't find its way into PHP_4_0_5 branch? It was done a week ago, at the time of ~ RC3 I think. -- Sincerely yours, Alexander Bokovoy The Midgard Project | ALT Linux Team | Minsk Linux Users Group www.midgard-project.org | www.altlinux.ru | www.minsk-lug.net -- "Here comes Mr. Bill's dog." -- Narrator, Saturday Night Live