Re: module versioning

At 02:38 PM 6/24/2001 +1000, avi@itsg.net.au wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: I think we should also consider saving the version in the extension structure and having generic function such as extension_version("xml"). This would save us from having to bloat PHP by adding a foo_version() function to all extensions. andi, thanks for your quick response! i totally agree with your suggestion.. i think Anil recommended the same thing in the original thread. will this be much work to implement for 4.0.7?

It is not huge amount of work but we should agree on php-dev first about what the version number will look like both number wise and format wise, i.e. string vs. integer, 1.0.3 vs. 2001008. Probably the latter date is more useful in this context.

i feel that it would make things a lot cleaner, and will definitely be needed if PEAR (the C version) is to have a chance at success.

Andi