Re: External Dependencies

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 at 14:36:01, Jon Wood wrote: > I'm currently developing a new version of Auth_PrefManager, and want > to include a test suite based on SimpleTest > (simpletest.sourceforge.net), since it's more mature than PHPUnit. > > What's the policy on external dependencies - should they be included > in CVS and with the package, or should anyone who wants to run the > test suite have to install it themselves? Imho we should not divert unit-tests among too many unit-testing-frameworks.. Are your testcases really unsolveable with PHPUnit? Have you checked back with Sebastian, maybe had a look at the extended PHPUnit2 (php5 only!) etc.? External dependencies are (not yet) possible. You could add external dependencies as soon as channel-support is available - but I think we agreed that PEAR-packages should not have any external dependencies. So if simpletest really has further advantages over PHPUnit or anything, imho it would be best to provide basic PHPUnit-tests and have a separate directory that explains where to get simpletest from and holds test-files to run with that testing-framework. PS: Please note I don't know too much details about SimpleTest yet ... Hope it helps, Stefan