Re: Re: Test failure on MacOS X and Failure analysis
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:58:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Test failure on MacOS X and Failure analysis | ||
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Zoe Slattery wrote:
> Hi
>
> I think there are two user scenarios to consider:
> (a) User works only on platform X and extpects the PHP function to return
> exactly what he would see from (say) the equivalent C function
> (b) User works on multiple platforms and wants his PHP app to behave
> exactly the same way across all of them.
>
> For writing tests it sounds like we are agreeing to follow scenario (a) but to
> makes changes to the doc so that the user in scenario (b) knows why his
> application might not work.
I'd say that PHP should work like in (b) though - everything should work
the same on every platform.
regards,
Derick
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