On Aug 7, 2014 8:13 AM, "Christian Stoller" <stol...@leonex.de> wrote: > > From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre....@gmail.com] > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > >> > >> On 6 Aug 2014, at 14:26, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> For the exts I tried while I was testing/fixing phpng a couple of > >>> weeks ago, I'd to say that maintaining the same code base for phpng > >>> and 5.x is simply too hard, way too many APIs changes, many of them > >>> cannot be detected at compile time, introducing many many new #ifdefs > >>> along other things. I will maintain a separate branch. The only thing > >>> I worry about is how I will manage releases in pecl. I have no clean > >>> solution now, or maybe one release with two branches bundled. Separate > >>> releases could work too but I will try everything possible to do not > >>> have to do that, or to have to do that as it is really painful to do. > >>> Maybe I can manage to implement something in pickle to ease this work. > >>> Ideas welcome. > >> > >> Perhaps for these extensions, it is best to not make it work with > >> both versions, but instead have a 5.x version and a phpng version, > >> and continue to maintain both separately? I wonder if that might actually > >> be less work than trying to keep a single version working on both. > > > > This is what I just said. But the problem is then how to release them. > > An extension will release 2.0.0, how do you release it? 2.0.0-7 and > > 2.0.0 for 5.x? Packaging, branching, etc. will be painful too. The > > whole flow many projects uses now will have to change. This is > > something I have to think about, not sure what is the best solution > > yet. > > > > -- > > Pierre > > I'd say the best way is to create a new major version for the extension > branch which works with phpng. > So 2.0.0 for normal and 3.0.0 for phpng. This would make it possible > to maintain two branches for both versions. But I don't know if this is possible > with pecl.
Not sure. It means 5.x versions won't get any major version then, which is very unlikely for many exts. Cheers, Pierre
