On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:59 AM, dan nessett<[email protected]> wrote:
> If a developer has more system privileges than a production admin, to what 
> extent? Can we assume he has root access? If not, can we assume he can get 
> someone who has to do things like install PHPUnit? Can we assume the 
> availability of PERL or should we only assume PHP? Can we assume *AMP (e.g., 
> LAMP, WAMP, MAMP, XAMP)? Can we assume PEAR? Can the developer install into 
> PEAR?

We should *try* to have no extra dependencies.  Every extra dependency
means fewer people will be able to run the tests.  If a reasonable
dependency would gain us a lot in some other way, that might be
acceptable, depending on what we actually gain from it.

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