Re: Can we use PHPT instead of .php and .php.expect

Hey Sara, > On 4 Jan 2015, at 20:54, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: >> If we start using .phpt exclusively, I'd also like to bundle run-tests.php >> and set up Travis to run PHP 5.6 and HHVM against the PHP-5.6 branch. Having >> these tests is kinda pointless if they fail and nobody even notices. Sadly >> we can't do the same for PHP 7 yet, because it isn't available on Travis. >> > But travis' php version is fairly static, isn't it? Wouldn't it be > better to have every php commit build its own php and then check out > the standards repo to run them (at which point it has run-tests.php > already from the php-src repo. Yes, and building it ourselves would allow us to test master. When building ourselves we wouldn’t need a super-complex setup like php-src has, because the language spec doesn’t really use anything outside ext/standard. We could do ultra-slim (and ultra-fast!) --disable-all builds. Thoughts? -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/