Re: Linux / Unix difference

2009/7/24 zoe <zoe.slattery@googlemail.com> > Hi Johannes et al., > >> >> Do you really want to got that way and open that can of worms just for >> abstraction of an edge case? - I'd concentrate on issues with real-life >> impact. >> >> > This is an annoying detail and testing PHP is a lot about annoying details. > The problem from my point of view is that there are a set of tests which > fail on one platform and reflect a difference in behaviour between Unix and > Linux. Just having a bunch of tests which fail can obscure more important > test failures and potentially waste peoples effort over and over again as > each new person figures out why they fail. > > That said I _really_ do not like PHP behaving differently on different > platforms, however small that difference is it will cause some pain to an > application developer sometime. > > These are the options I can think of: > > 1. Remove the edge case tests to a set of separate tests and have specific > tests for edge cases for Linux and Unix (assuming that it is possible to > distinguish them in a SKIPIF?). This implies that the difference in > behaviour of PHP on different platforms is accepted and agreed. > > 2. Fix PHP to behave the same way for both - and as you suggest that is > possibly a can of worms. > > 3. As Patrick suggests remove edge case tests. That again implies > acceptance of a difference in behaviour but I think it is less satisfactory > than (1) because the agreed difference is not documented (through tests) and > the edge case behaviour on both platforms is untested. > > > Zoe > > >> >> >> >> > > > -- > PHP Quality Assurance Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > 1. Feels like we're just hiding the problem. 2. I vote for this approach. 3. So much has been done to make PHP as similar across platforms as possible and pathing, to me anyway, is a pretty big deal. I would rather investigate ways to eliminate the edge cases, than accept them. Just my feelings, hope everyone has a great weekend. Eric Lee Stewart