Re: [RFC] Versioning rules for PHP/Zend/PEAR/Extensions

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:00:05AM +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote: > First, you forget that for the vast majority of end users, treating RC's as > releases is going to be nightmarish. RC's are a reality check before > release, and so far, we haven't had a single RC that was release > worthy. Just imagine how much headaches we solved employing this approach. you are misrepresenting what i said. in what i am saying, something with a number is not automatically release quality, is not automatically listed alongside other releases, and is in absolutely no way different from what we currently tag with a version number that happens to contain the string 'RC' in it. (yes, we haven't had a 'pl' since 4.0.4. of course, that's just because it was decided the memlimit fix for 4.0.6 didn't merit a 'pl' designation. my point was simply that instead of ever making use of that middle digit in our release numbers, we just sometimes tack on a extra digit at the end, and that seems silly to me.) and i do question, a little bit, how successful our new release strategy is when we only seem to be able to muster a new release every three months. but maybe that's a pace we're happy with. and of course, that has way more to do with a great many more issues than how we number the releases. :) jim