On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:47 +0200, Jordi Boggiano wrote: > As you see it goes from no version at all to proper versions, passing by > svn revisions, dates, or a mix of all. > > In Composer [1] we try to parse all that using ReflectionExtension, to > allow people to require some specific version of an extension if they > want. Obviously this doesn't work very well when no version or some > random revision number is provided. > > Is there any other way I overlooked to get more version info? If not, > can this at least be improved in the future?
For PECL extensions the version number should be fine (or you can hit the package maintainer ;-) ). For core stuff i'd propose to switch to PHP_VERSION as version everywhere. While this can be complicated for extensions which are maintained in both (oci8 for instance) johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php