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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] extension naming
From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith)

Wez Furlong wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:16:03 -0500, Jason Barnett
> <jason.barnett@telesuite.com> wrote:
> 
>>...
>>
>>>>The obvious problem is:
>>>>What comes after "i"?
>>
>>ii? iii? iv?
> 
> 
> improved improved,
> improved improved improved
> improved very
> 
> i means improved, not "the roman numeral i".

Well that may be have been the original intention. I have seen alot of 
people suggest going with roman numerals as a way to prevent collisions 
with other projects. It is an interesting coincidence. I am not aware of 
any projects who has used roman numerals so it will prevent collisions. 
However there is a good reason why nobody has done it:
- its ugly
- it gets verbose
- the letter "i" isnt the most readable letter .. and several "i"s next 
too eachother are only making things worse.

Then again like I said it does provide a solution to work around issues 
like how to deal with standards like:
POP3
IPv6

Or products like:
DB2

Doing the obvious and appending numbers will lead to problems which we 
addressed in PEAR by allowing stuff like this at the developers choice:
    1. FooX
    2. FoovX
    3. Foo_vX

Not particularily a perfect solution either.

regards,
Lukas