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

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 11:16:30 +0200 bmansion@mamasam.com (Bertrand Mansion) wrote: > 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 ? I think it is ok. I see nothing in any docs/RFC that prevents the usage of the logical choice. -- Pierre