Re: Migrating PECL extension : Advice needed

On Jul 6, 2015 11:04 PM, "François Laupretre" <francois@php.net> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I'm currently adapting the 'PHK' PECL extension for PHP 7. I initially > wanted to keep a single branch for PHP 5 and PHP 7, and enclose differences > in macros and #ifdef blocks, starting with a backport of zend_string. > Unfortunately, PHK interacts a lot with the PHP core and, as changes > accumulate, I see my code become less and less readable. So, I now think > I'll have to create a separate branch. > > As many of you probably had to make the same decision, can you tell me how > you numbered your versions for the 2 parallel branches ? Use a different > major number ? minor number ? same version with different suffixes ? Different branches is painful from a release point of view and development. Except if the exposed APIs are very different it makes little sense to do it. Same for using different versions for 5.x and 7.x. I would recommend to use multiple files when the code is getting unreadable.. > Thanks and regards > > François > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >