Re: Installation

Jeff Warnica wrote: > > On a almost unrelated topic, prehaps we want for force on people the linux > kernel numbering scheem, major.minor.release where > > major dosent mean much (but major<1 means 'devel') > minor = 0 or even means 'stable' > release is bugfixes inside a version > > Looking at cpan, it could take years before anything is 1.x.x, and we realy > couldnt force this on people, but (and I dont know anything about xml) we > could do a: > > <version type="major">1</version> > <version type="minor-stable">0</version> > <version type="release-stable">0</version> > <version type="minor-devel">1</version> > <version type="minor-stable">0</version> > > And complain if the minor-stable and release-stable dont fit in.... > > > <version type="stable">1.0</version> > > <version type="devel">2.0</version> I wrote a message about this earlier today where I suggested copying Linux's odd/even versioning scheme. This would let us know if a release is stable or devel just by looking at the version number, and the type= attribute would not be needed. IMHO the major version number should be used. If we write up some version numbering guidelines, I expect PEAR contributors to follow them rather than doing whatever CPAN contributors are doing. :-) By the way (completely unrelated), does anyone have a nice picture of a pear that we can stick in the PHP logo's yellow circle? - Stig