Re: [STANDARDS] Can we use PHPT instead of .php and .php.expect

[email protected] (Andrea Faulds)
Newsgroups php.standards
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hey Sara,

> On 4 Jan 2015, at 20:54, Sara Golemon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Nikita Popov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If we start using .phpt exclusively, I'd also like to bundle run-tests.php
>> and set up Travis to run PHP 5.6 and HHVM against the PHP-5.6 branch. Having
>> these tests is kinda pointless if they fail and nobody even notices. Sadly
>> we can't do the same for PHP 7 yet, because it isn't available on Travis.
>> 
> But travis' php version is fairly static, isn't it?  Wouldn't it be
> better to have every php commit build its own php and then check out
> the standards repo to run them (at which point it has run-tests.php
> already from the php-src repo.

Yes, and building it ourselves would allow us to test master. When building ourselves we wouldn’t need a super-complex setup like php-src has, because the language spec doesn’t really use anything outside ext/standard. We could do ultra-slim (and ultra-fast!) --disable-all builds.

Thoughts?
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Andrea Faulds
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