Re: interesting possibility for BC-breaking version naming

Greg Beaver wrote:

I just read a message on php-internals that has a surprising solution to the problem of naming a release that breaks BC for a package that has a number in it, like Mail_IMAPv4. What if we allowed roman numerals to be used as well as arabic numerals? Net_POP3i Net_POP3ii Net_POP3iii Net_POP3iv etc. Note: the reason I'm suggesting this here, is because I don't think it's ready for PEPr-izing, and if no one has opposition, it could easily be appended to the existing standard.

the main reason why this might be a useful alternative is because nobody else uses this scheme .. so its not likely to collide with others ... at the same time there is a good reason why others havent used this naming scheme .. its particularily ugly and verbose. Remember that this will end up inside your code as the prefix for any global variable, class, constant etc. regards, Lukas