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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5 or 6?
From: antony@zend.com (Antony Dovgal)

On 31.05.2007 13:25, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> Antony Dovgal wrote:
>> On 31.05.2007 13:04, Jani Taskinen wrote:
>>> Antony Dovgal kirjoitti:
>>>> On 31.05.2007 03:29, Jani Taskinen wrote:
>>>>> The whole idea of having that number there is pretty stupid..why not 
>>>>> just remove them altogether..?
>>>>
>>>> Well, in some places it's just not possible, like libphp6.so etc.
>>>
>>> You chose just the right example! Now, can you tell why it is necessary?
>>> And remember, everything is possible..there is no impossible here, we're
>>> having a totally new major version and everything.
>> 
>> Well, you might want to have both libphp5.so and libphp6.so installed, 
>> but only one of them enabled.
> 
> Why should you be able to do this for two different major versions, but 
> not for arbitrary minor versions or even configurations?

Because this is how it works for years?

I do agree that having version number in file names is bad idea, but we need to think 
it over very good, since I don't like changing a behaviour which existed for ages, 
even if it looks stupid.

-- 
Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal