Re: [PHP-DEV] A suggestion regarding stabel vs. experimental on the extension level From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 11/16/00

At 19:00 16/11/2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>The main problem with this is that you can't really move files around in
>CVS nicely without some ugly hacks or without losing the revision history
>for those files. I would rather see some sort of indicator put into an
>ext/ directory that simply prevents it from being included in a release.
>eg. ext/foo/EXPERIMENTAL
>We can simply check for that file and not include the extension if it is
>there. That eliminates the need for shuffling files around in the CVS
>repository.

Actually it's quite possible, just not through CVS. If you move the ,v
files, it would just work, and all of the revision history will be retained.
I don't think that the experimental code should be excluded from releases
(which will reduce the number of bug reports, and 'turn around time' from
unstable to stable status for modules). Instead, if we could somehow
clearly state that the extension is experimental, like force the switch to
be --with-experimental-SOMETHING, then it should be ok.

Zeev 

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Zeev Suraski   <zeev <email protected>>
CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd.  http://www.zend.com/

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