Re: Fixing bundled extension version mess

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > We tried that many times but we fail to handle the version of bundled > extensions. > > Along with some installer work and other integration (projects > dependencies management, composer or other), we need to find a way to > get rid of this problem. > > What do you think to simply use the PHP version number instead of some > outdated (most of the time) version for all bundled extensions? > > For extensions being available both bundled or externally, the > external versions will provide a sane version number when installed > (like timezone db or other). > > Doing so will make requirements management much easier by adding a > list of core extensions per PHP version. > > Thoughts? > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Big +1 for this! It would certainly make things less confusing for many people. --Kris