Re: RFC: PECL versioning

Pierre Joye wrote: > Hi Steph, > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:33 AM, Steph Fox <steph@zend.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> There is an RFC about PECL versioning on the new izzy-whizzy Wiki. >> >> Please go and add your comments (at the end!). There needs to be consensus >> for this to work out. >> >> http://wiki.php.net/rfc > > Great! thanks to have took the time to write it down, I will read > carefully later today :) > > Can you move it to the PECL namespace please? > (http://wiki.php.net/pecl/rfc/start to list the RFCs and > http://wiki.php.net/pecl/rfc/versioning) > > Cheers, But won't this RFC also affect extensions in core, Pierre? If PECL has a nice standard but the extensions in core ignore it...what's the point? I think this sounds like a good idea - some solid versioning would be a very good thing. Being able to use version_compare on all pecl extensions, also a very good thing. This is also a fairly simple request - define your version, use it in php info. I would also ask if it would make sense to have the version exported to userland as a PHP_EXTNAME_VERSION as PHP_VERSION is - not all extensions are kind enough to give you a method of retrieving the version. PHP_{extname}_VERSION gets my +1, I'll help with getting stuff updated... Thanks, Elizabeth