Re: alpha release stuff

Andrei, The last Zend API bump came unannounced, and prevented any extension the other side of it working with the unofficial binary I'd rolled three days prior to it. This one will prevent several extensions (com_dotnet, date, dom, mysqli, reflection, simplexml, spl, sqlite, tidy, xmlreader, xmlwriter and xsl, to name those affected in the core distro) from working with anything built against PHP prior to the API change. That poses a real problem for win32 users, because PECL binaries are available _either_ with a PHP release download OR from pecl4win, which carries the latest snaps for each branch. In other words, there wasn't a way for users to pick up a copy of the PECL bundle that would work with my unofficial binary last time around, unless they went back to an earlier PHP release - and that in turn meant several PHP bug fixes were missing. So darn right it has something to do with the API bump! It was news to me that there should've been a midpoint release last September, and I had visions of the same mess happening again. In fact it will - the difference is that, thanks to the insistence on a midpoint release, we can tell people to ONLY use PECL extensions dating from the 5.1 series with this alpha, and presumably to ONLY use PECL extensions dating from the 5.2 series with our full release. - Steph

It has nothing to do with API bump. Why would it? -Andrei On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:05 PM, Steph Fox wrote:

That'll be primarily because you already knew something I didn't know until I asked. AKA, the API bump isn't happening until 5.2.0. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrei Zmievski" <andrei@gravitonic.com> To: "Steph Fox" <steph@zend.com> Cc: "PHP-GTK dev" <php-gtk-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:52 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-GTK-DEV] alpha release stuff

On Apr 14, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Steph Fox wrote:

Andrei, does it make sense to you to keep in line there?

No, I don't see why we need to be in line with 5.1.3. -Andrei

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