Re: Re: suggestion for pecl packages

Justin Hannus wrote:

Hatem Ben Yacoub wrote:

Wich version of a PECL package am I running ? no idea ! If I want to update, i have to download the latest version from the website, even if I got already the last one. I think It will be better to add version info inside the package itself. Example for tidy, just adding a function tidy_version() or tidy_pecl_version() ... coz i'm not sure if some packages are already using _version() It will be useful if tomorrow we can add a client interface to get the latest stable pecl packages. Best Regards, Hatem

I'm not exactly sure what you mean--all pecl packages contain version info. In fact the package itself is named acording to the release. i.e PackageName-1.0.tgz. If you need to update a package you can use `pear install PackageName' or better yet `pear update PackageName'. Some extensions define an *_version() function so you can programatically check but its not a requirement. You can also see what version info comes along with the phpinfo() function under that extensions info table. AFAIK the ReflectionAPI als works with extensions and can get the version

number which is defined there. But usually this number is not changed often... Andrey