RE: [PHP-DEV] A suggestion regarding stabel vs. experimental on the extension level From: James Moore (jmoore <email protected>)
Date: 11/19/00

> Stig Venaas wrote:
> > I like this idea. It should be possible to tag some extensions as
> > experimental and change the status to stable without actually moving
> > anything. One way could be to have an extra check in the separate
> > config.m4 files, or perhaps better, alter config-stubs to only include
> > the config.m4 file if there isn't a file called say .experimental in
> > the extension directory.
>
> as moving files as a CVS user results in loss of history information
> and moving the *,v files on the server requires too much privileges
> i'd agree to the 'marker file' solution
>
> but we should not hide the file, lets call it EXPERIMENTAL or
> even stronger like WARNING-EXPERIMENTAL with some human readable
> information inside and lets have ext_skel create it by default
>
> the information should be as obvious as possible and not hidden

Personally I like the idea of when configuring
using --enable-experimental-mod or --with-experimental-mod this makes it
very clear to the user that it is experimental.

James 

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