Re: PHP 5.4 branch and trunk

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 22:13 +0100, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > On 16.03.2010, at 16:58, Derick Rethans wrote: > > > Before we add features, they need to be discussed whether we want to > > have them. As version name for it I would like to use "trunk-dev" (and > > not 5.4-dev or 6.0-dev) as we're not quite sure where this is moving. > > Right now, there are the following features that I can see we should > > think about: > > > Since we do not know the name of the next version yet, maybe its best to > base the name on what version it will have as a predecessor and add > support for this in version_compare()? Something like "5.3post". Ok this > isnt a good suggestion, but I hope you get what I am suggesting. We need a version number which can be represented as a numeric value like #define PHP_VERSION_ID 50303 to help extension authors; as said on IRC 5.4 is the only sane choice there. We can still increase the number if needed. How to document this is a good question... johannes