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