OK..
Just removing the "-dev" in the version number would be wrong (as is symlinking), a Stable PHP release should include "stable" extensions. Not dev versions of the extension. So one of the ideas is to fetch the last stable extension release for a PHP release, but well, then there's the problem that everybody (people using snaps, people using CVS, ...) end up with different versions which makes QA hard. (not to mention bug hunting trouble with people using the latest release but updated a single extension, ....)
Temporary halfway-house solution: don't tag the symlinked extensions with -dev for now, just call them 1.0.0 or whatever. We can move to proper versioning for those symlinked ones when we have a way to bring stable PECL packages into core, but at least there'll be a structure already in place that makes that easy.
- Steph
johannes
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