On Aug 5, 2008, at 6:08 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Your limitations are your limitations and should not be placed on Moshe or anyone else (w.r.t. this subject).
You chose not to quote the parts of my message[1] where I explained there's actually no limitation at all, and Moshe or anyone else is free to use 2 digits for their major version in the N of hook_update_N ().
A simple delimiter in the N format of hook_update_N would allow for all possible scenarios.
You quoted but seem to have not read or understood the part of my other message[2] where I explained this isn't "simple": "A) This is a convention that allows branch-aware updates to work *without any changes to the core update.php logic, the schema for the {system} table, and other places.*" Adding another delimiter to hook_update_N() function signatures would require a fairly far-reaching patch. You can see some of the initial discussion in the issue[3] where we decided using an integer convention was much easier. Please (re)read all of this before you propose a "simple" delimiter for hook_update_N() which would "solve" a "problem" we don't have. :) Thanks, -Derek (dww) [1] http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2008-August/ 030682.html [2] http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2008-August/ 030680.html [3] http://drupal.org/node/64212