Re: RFC: PECL versioning

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 What do you mean by "Tag the version with -dev at all times except during a package release"? About using a recognized versionning structure, it is indeed a very good thing and required. I would like however to go one or steps further. Not as far as PEAR but it would be great to define some basic rules for the x.y.z formats: - Stable can only be >= 1.0.0 - x.y.z+1 bugs fixes, no BC allowed - x.y+2.z features additions, bugs fixes, no BC allowed - x+1.y.z everything is allowed Applying these three simple rules will help distributions, packagers and users to manage their install or to upgrade their systems in a safe way (and faster as less tests are required). The $Revision$ tag is pretty useless but only useful for us developers when we work using the CVS versions or snapshots. I don't think it has to be in the requirements. About the replace operation in the package.xml, it is also good to do not have it as requirements, it is only a tool that one can use or not. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org