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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5 or 6?
From: jani.taskinen@sci.fi (Jani Taskinen)

"worked for years" is just why I said "having a totally new major 
version"..meaning this is the time to fix the bad practises.
For filenames this is no problem at all, you can always rename files
yourself if you _really_ need to have different files around.

And if you think that this breaks something..well, it doesn't.
The old libphp4.so, and libphp5.so aren't changing with this, are they? :D

--Jani

Antony Dovgal kirjoitti:
> 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.
>