Re: Branching ext/standard?

At 23:37 22-08-01, jeroen@php.net wrote:

Hi, I've got an experimental beginning of the new rand functions ready. I think it's good if others can comment on it before it is finished, because the course can be changed now quite easily, but when it's all done, I don't feel much about doing that...

Do you need the branch the whole directory? We usually (read: always) don't use branches for development, i.e., we don't use branches that are planned to eventually merge in. That's because CVS's branch handling leaves a lot to be desired... It may be ok in this case, where the chances of somebody else committing something that would clash with your changes are very slim, but I think you're better off branching just the file or couple of files which you're modifying.

So, should I branch ext/standard under the name 'EXPERIMENTAL', or 'RAND_CHANGE', or something else?

EXPERIMENTAL is way too general to be good for such a purpose... I'd try and use a fairly descriptive name, which is unlikely to be used again in the future. Zeev