Re: New run-tests code

Pierre Joye wrote:

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. Thanks Pierre :-) It's a complicated and widely misunderstood subject, so useful to have the discussion here. Neither Stefan, Georg or I were sure that we understood all the issues.

Cheers,