Re: Re: Conditional package dependencies?

On 6/11/07, Gregory Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote:

Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson wrote: On 6/11/07, *Olivier Guilyardi* <ojaiml@nerim.net <mailto:ojaiml@nerim.net>> wrote:

    Gregory Beaver wrote:

Olivier Guilyardi wrote:

If I understand correctly you mean that: - SDG_DS_SQLQuery 1.0.x wouldn't provide any file by its own

    but depend on:
    - PHP4
    - SDG_DS_DBQuery (the old DB-based driver)
    - SDG_DS_MDB2 (the old MDB2-based driver)

- SDG_DS_SQLQuery 1.1.x would provide the new driver's files

    and depend on:
    - PHP5

- Structures_DataGrid would depend on:

    - SDG_DS_SQLQuery >= 1.0

Then the pear installer would download the 1.0.x version if it

    detects PHP4, and

the 1.1.x or later version otherwise. Is this right? This is indeed the solution I'm talking about. Be forewarned

    that this

will result in some really long version numbers like 1.0.48 and

    1.1.94

if you do a lot of releases :).

    Actually, I don't see any reason to release anything else that 1.0
    in the 1.0.x
    series. Whenever we release a new version of SDG_DS_DBQuery or
    SDG_DS_MDB2, the
    pear installer should install the latest PHP4-compatible version.

    And what's wrong with normal numbering starting from 1.1? We could
    release 1.2,
    1.3, etc.. as long as 1.0 is the only release that's not
    compatible with PHP5.

    Am I right?

Wrong, you can't break BC after a stable release unless you make a major version. Hi, Helgi, I think you may have misread what Olivier is saying. 1.0.x/1.1.x would be backwards compatible, the question was whether they can't just go to 1.2.x (php5 + new fangled features) from 1.1.x (php5) as long as 1.0.x is always the PHP4 version. The answer is yes :) Ahh I see what you're saying