Re: New run-tests code

hi all, On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Hannes Magnusson<bjori@php.net> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:25, zoe<zoe.slattery@googlemail.com> wrote: >> At the moment when you use run-tests.php the test results can be affected by >> your php.ini file. This causes endless confusion for people that don't >> realise that they need to use the -n option to ignore their php.ini. We'd >> like to make ignoring the user's php.ini file the default behaviour in the >> new version. Does anyone see a problem with this? > > How are you planning on picking up shared extensions or making sure > stuff works on weird configuration setups? > > Testing only the default php.ini limits the actual testing quite a lot. Not really. The key part in Zoe's mail was: can always be controlled using the test's --INI-- and I fully agree with that. Running a test with some random php.ini without actually knowing the context is pointless and even produce false positve errors. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org