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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:00:48 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4 branch and trunk
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 22:13 +0100, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> On 16.03.2010, at 16:58, Derick Rethans wrote:
> 
> > Before we add features, they need to be discussed whether we want to 
> > have them. As version name for it I would like to use "trunk-dev" (and 
> > not 5.4-dev or 6.0-dev) as we're not quite sure where this is moving. 
> > Right now, there are the following features that I can see we should 
> > think about:
> 
> 
> Since we do not know the name of the next version yet, maybe its best to 
> base the name on what version it will have as a predecessor and add 
> support for this in version_compare()? Something like "5.3post". Ok this 
> isnt a good suggestion, but I hope you get what I am suggesting.

We need a version number which can be represented as a numeric value
like 

#define PHP_VERSION_ID 50303

to help extension authors; as said on IRC 5.4 is the only sane choice
there. We can still increase the number if needed.

How to document this is a good question...

johannes