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 Antony Dovgal <tony@daylessday.org>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.2.5 Released - update on extensions versioning information
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

The extensions rarely expose internal API, some certainly do offer a  
few PHPAPI functions, but that's more an exception then the rule. As  
far as the user functionality, you raise a good point, but many core  
extensions rarely change to warrant a new version token on every  
release.



On 10-Nov-07, at 4:34 PM, Gaetano Giunta wrote:

>
>>> plus a 3 numbered version is very easy to assign to a lib (you  
>>> know, like a new param for a function bumps up the middle number,  
>>> a fix - any fix - bumps up the rightmost one etc... )
>>
>> That is what $Revision$ CVS tag does, version number is totally  
>> different thing IMO.
>>
> Sorry, but I disagree on this one. You might either think that an  
> extension "version" defines either its api as accessible by the php  
> kernel or as accessible by the php coder, but that's exactly what  
> version numbers are used for.
> The cvs tag is for people that compile from source and have to  
> report an error against a a specific version.
>

Ilia Alshanetsky