[dev] Version naming and PEAR installer

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

[snip]

>> So, the question is, do we want to stick to our well established  
>> version naming, to make the transition from H3 to H4 easier for  
>> users that are already used to our versioning?
>> Or do we change to PEAR versioning style, to lower dependencies for  
>> installing Horde?
>
> The latter.
>
> While I consider "5.0.0alpha1" to be far less readable than  
> "5.0-alpha" I get the impression that this change would only really  
> affect the "pre-stable" versions. Our former imp-h4-5.0.tar.gz would  
> now be imp-5.0.0.tar.gz and something we would have released as  
> imp-h4-5.0.1.tar.gz would now be imp-5.0.1.tgz. So once we are in  
> the "stable" situation the numbers match quite well. And that is the  
> phase that I would say matters most. Somebody willing to try the  
> alpha can be expected to deal with a version number that does not  
> match to the old scheme.
>
> I think dropping the "h4" mark is more significant than the version  
> numbering. But as you mentioned in a recent commit: "We need to drop  
> the hN- prefix for package tarballs. Not so much of a problem since  
> we manage dependencies through PEAR now anyway."
>
> So I'm in favor of switching to the PEAR scheme.

I agree with Gunnar.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]