Tomas,
That is interesting. It seems to me that it would benefit everyone if you
could contribute the additional tests that you have written back to
PHP.net. (assuming they are in phpt format) This is good for the whole PHP
community because PHP needs more tests, and its also good for you because
if you synchronise your tests regularly with php.net you will find out if
a php.net internals developer changes the PHP behaviour and changes a
testcase to match.
I am working on the PHP runtime in IBM's project zero (www.projectzero.org
) and we have been following the policy I describe above - taking tests
from PHP.net but also contributing tests that we write back. Our
continuous integration servers actually pick up any tests that change in
cvs.php.net and run them - so we know immediately something changes.
We recently found that some of the array behaviour in PHP 5.3 had changed.
We found out because a php.net developer changed one of the testcases that
we had previously committed to match the changed behaviour in the zend
engine. As a result, next time we synchronised with php.net we found that
testcase failed on our runtime.
In the question on namespaces - You might want to hold off on this for a
while - There is a discussion around removing namespaces support from PHP
5.3.
Cheers,
Rob Nicholson
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