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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
