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Subject: Re: [PECL-DEV] About that PECL versioning thing
From: steph@zend.com ("Steph Fox")

Hi,

>> The first step in fixing the core<->pecl relationship? \o/

That's the basic idea, yes.

>> But what about extensions that are symlinked to core? Will they need
>> to update their version info during core release cycles?
>> It obviously shouldn't have a -dev version when distributed with PHP..
>> Is it up to the RM to hunt those extensions down and make sure the
>> version info is accurate?
>
> Just removing the "-dev" in the version number would be wrong (as is
> symlinking), a Stable PHP release should include "stable" extensions.
> Not dev versions of the extension. So one of the ideas is to fetch the
> last stable extension release for a PHP release, but well, then there's
> the problem that everybody (people using snaps, people using CVS, ...)
> end up with different versions which makes QA hard. (not to mention bug
> hunting trouble with people using the latest release but updated a
> single extension, ....)

But we already have those problems now. Labelling the version just makes it 
more obvious that we have those problems :)

- Steph

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> johannes
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