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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:54:25 +0200
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Move the phpng branch to master
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>
> On 6 Aug 2014, at 14:26, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For the exts I tried while I was testing/fixing phpng a couple of
>> weeks ago, I'd to say that maintaining the same code base for phpng
>> and 5.x is simply too hard, way too many APIs changes, many of them
>> cannot be detected at compile time, introducing many many new #ifdefs
>> along other things. I will maintain a separate branch. The only thing
>> I worry about is how I will manage releases in pecl. I have no clean
>> solution now, or maybe one release with two branches bundled. Separate
>> releases could work too but I will try everything possible to do not
>> have to do that, or to have to do that as it is really painful to do.
>> Maybe I can manage to implement something in pickle to ease this work.
>> Ideas welcome.
>
> Perhaps for these extensions, it is best to not make it work with both ve=
rsions, but instead have a 5.x version and a phpng version, and continue to=
 maintain both separately? I wonder if that might actually be less work tha=
n trying to keep a single version working on both.

This is what I just said. But the problem is then how to release them.
An extension will release 2.0.0, how do you release it? 2.0.0-7 and
2.0.0 for 5.x? Packaging, branching, etc. will be painful too. The
whole flow many projects uses now will have to change. This is
something I have to think about, not sure what is the best solution
yet.


--=20
Pierre

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