Re: What I love about CPAN and what I hope PEAR will be

Joshua Eichorn wrote: > Peter Beckman wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Alister Bulman wrote: >> >>> On 20/10/06, Joshua Eichorn <josh@bluga.net> wrote: >>>> So whats your suggestion for PEAR, the only difference I see at all is >>>> build server for compiling on multiple distros (which might apply to >>>> pecl but doesn't apply to pear) >>>> -josh >>> >>> I'd think the suggestion is: >>> >>> Automatically running unit tests, could get fancy like a Continuous >>> Integration system (that I would love to be able to run with code I'm >>> developing), or something a little simpler like running every X >>> hours/every time code is checked into the PEAR CVS repository - and it >>> just emails to the QA mailing list. >> >> Amen. Well put and yes, that's what I'm suggesting. I think the coding >> standards will need to standardize on something so that EVERY package >> has >> the tests in a standard way so that automating testing doesn't rely on >> hacks. > The installer has a run-tests command so im guessing the standized way > already exists, it just a matter of setting up some automated testing. > Seems like it would be pretty easy to > grab the code from the installer and do automatic testing of releases. > Then its just a matter of adding some reports and formalizing the process. > > But again its the type of project that needs someone to take the first > steps on and get the ball rolling. > -josh > As a first step we need each project with unit tests to provide an AllTests.php that can be run with pear run-tests. On a related note that might be of interest is what the ZF guys did http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFMLGEN/mail/7584 Arnaud.