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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:45:38 +0200
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To: Michael Wallner <mike@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Core extension versions
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> wrote:
> On 15 October 2013 17:16, Anatol Belski <ab@php.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> as part of the extension version check on PECL it turned out, that the
>> extensions in the core are almost completely out of track with their
>> versions, not even to talk about version macros names. That regards to
>> exts imported from PECL as well as to the exts never been in PECL. Here
>> are a few examples of zend_module_entry version strings:
>>
>> ext/simplexml
>> "0.1"
>>
>> ext/bz2
>> NO_VERSION_YET (== NULL) but was PECL 1.0 in 2003
>>
>> ext/pdo
>> "1.0.4dev" whereby it was PECL 1.0.3 in 2006
>>
>> and the winner might be that from ext/tokenizer
>>
>> "0.1", /* Replace with version number for your extension */
>>
>> as if it were just generated :)
>>
>> Only a few extensions, just to name some - zip, dom, oci8, track the
>> version number.
>>
>> Actually that doesn't look solid for the extensions being in the core
>> for years. And while that's a minor issue, it doesn't really smell good.
>> So, do we wanna do something about it?
>>
>
> I'd use PHP_VERSION for those extensions not explicitely managing a version.

>
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> Mike
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PHP_VERSION-bundle

for clarity in bug report :)

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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