Re: RE: XML_Tree2 vs XML_Tree 2.0.0

Adam Gołębiowski wrote:

IMO such a versioning policy is not a good thing. What will happen in next few years? We will have package Foo, Foo2, Foo3 through FooX just because it was actively developed.

Before I comment, I would like to point out that with many existing coding techniques, your concerns are 100% valid. However, the point of the regulation is to discourage existing inferior coding techniques. So, will we end up with Foo99243? No, this will not happen. Well-designed classes need not change their API. What is going to happen is packages will be more wary to change their status away from alpha until they are sure the API is a good one. Some may even design API extensibility into the API to allow for flexibility without breakage. Imagine that :) A PEAR with a dependable API is a usable PEAR, for both new users and enterprise users. Greg