Re: extension naming
| From: | Lukas Smith | Date: | Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:44:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: extension naming | ||
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Wez Furlong wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:16:03 -0500, Jason Barnett <jason.barnett@telesuite.com> wrote:Well that may be have been the original intention. I have seen alot of people suggest going with roman numerals as a way to prevent collisions with other projects. It is an interesting coincidence. I am not aware of any projects who has used roman numerals so it will prevent collisions. However there is a good reason why nobody has done it: - its ugly - it gets verbose - the letter "i" isnt the most readable letter .. and several "i"s next too eachother are only making things worse. Then again like I said it does provide a solution to work around issues like how to deal with standards like: POP3 IPv6 Or products like: DB2 Doing the obvious and appending numbers will lead to problems which we addressed in PEAR by allowing stuff like this at the developers choice: 1. FooX 2. FoovX 3. Foo_vX Not particularily a perfect solution either. regards, Lukas...improved improved, improved improved improved improved very i means improved, not "the roman numeral i".ii? iii? iv?The obvious problem is: What comes after "i"?