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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] extension naming
From: jason.barnett@telesuite.com (Jason Barnett)

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>> The obvious problem is:
>> What comes after "i"?

ii? iii? iv?

>> How transparent is this naming scheme to the user?

Well if it's a simple Roman Numeral system like what I've just done then
we wouldn't really have an issue (except that it assumes people know
Roman Numerals).  Not sure if that's really the way you all want to go
though.

The nice thing about doing it this way: It's a distinctly different
numbering system and it just-so-happens to fit in with what we already
have.  Besides I thought one of the P's in PHP was "pragmatic".

>>
>> We had to address a similar problem in PEAR and we currently have the
>> following regulation in place which is a solution which is not
>> beautiful either:
>> http://pear.php.net/group/docs/20031114-bbr.php

Yeah that does have a few pock marks :-/

As another alternative you could just make it really, really obvious
that the newest version breaks BC by just shoving BC in there.

xmlrpcbc1
xmlrpcbc1.x.y
xmlrpcbc2
...


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