Re: Re: Next version of QuickForm should be?..

Lukas Smith wrote: >Alexey Borzov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There is a good chance that work on a new major version of >> HTML_QuickForm package will start soon, this would be a PHP5-only >> package with a quite different API. >> >> Now, as QuickForm existed long before current guidelines for package >> versioning were established, its current version is 3.2.5 but the >> package name has no number appended. >> >> Therefore, a question. Should a new version be HTML_QuickForm2 or >> HTML_QuickForm4? >> >> HTML_QuickForm2 with versions starting from 4.0.0 looks a bit stupid, >> but HTML_QuickForm4 looks a bit stupid, too, since there were never >> HTML_QuickForm2 and HTML_QuickForm3. > >I think the last definition said forth in the RFC Alan put up would >allow you to do HTML_QuickForm2 with entirely new version numbering. So >you can start at 0.1.0 alpha if you want: >http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=65 > >Hmm actually reading the document again it does seem to mandate 2.x for >the first stable release of a major version 2 release. Anyways reading >that document it I think it would be alright to do: >HTML_QuickForm2 0.x for the pre stable releases >HTML_QuickForm2 4.x for the stable releases (this is similar to PHPUnit2 >3.x). > >Unfortunately this was all never really merged into the core docs :( My preference goes to HTML_QuickForm2 with version numbers starting at 0.x.x This seems like the most understandable solution. Should we make a proposal or is this ok with everyone ? TIA -- Bertrand Mansion Mamasam Tel : +33 1 48 89 88 26 http://www.mamasam.com Creative Internet Solutions