"Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> [...]

> The problem here is that Ubuntu's upcoming 14.04 Trusty Tahr, as well as
> Debian unstable (sid), currently contain PHPUnit 3.6.10.[3][4] It seems to
> me that requiring our developers to manually install a different version of
> phpunit is instead going to make it even less likely for developers to
> write or run tests, and will make it that much more difficult to fix tests
> if they break.

> [...]

+1.  This has been a problem in the past as well, and it's
especially frustrating to see that ancient browsers or com-
ponents no longer supported upstream receive attention,
while for a central development tool manual intervention is
needed for essentially syntactic sugar.

Tim


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