Re: About that PECL versioning thing

Hi,

The first step in fixing the core<->pecl relationship? \o/

That's the basic idea, yes.

But what about extensions that are symlinked to core? Will they need to update their version info during core release cycles? It obviously shouldn't have a -dev version when distributed with PHP.. Is it up to the RM to hunt those extensions down and make sure the version info is accurate?

Just removing the "-dev" in the version number would be wrong (as is symlinking), a Stable PHP release should include "stable" extensions. Not dev versions of the extension. So one of the ideas is to fetch the last stable extension release for a PHP release, but well, then there's the problem that everybody (people using snaps, people using CVS, ...) end up with different versions which makes QA hard. (not to mention bug hunting trouble with people using the latest release but updated a single extension, ....)

But we already have those problems now. Labelling the version just makes it more obvious that we have those problems :) - Steph

johannes