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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Extension versions
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 18:39 +0200, jpauli wrote:
> 
> In fact, Zend API provides extensions a char* to give a hint about the
> extension version, but I guess no-one has been serious and really used
> that field as it would have to be.

Every(*) PECL extension does.

(*) The exception proves the rule.

> I recently noticed mistakes in ext/mysqlnd_ms as well.

Mistakes happen. For a version their was a mistake. For 10 other
releases it had the correct version number.

johannes