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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:29:10 +0100
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To: jani.taskinen@iki.fi
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Tests repository (was: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6)
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:18, Jani Taskinen <jani.taskinen@iki.fi> wrote:
> Having tests in multiple branches is PITA. Hasn't anyone considered that the
> best way would be to move all tests into their own repository
> (directory..whatever :) in SVN..? Considering they are supposed to be used
> for testing against regressions and BC breaks, they should always be
> runnable using any PHP version?

Thats actually a fairly good idea.

Some tests however are not supposed to work in earlier releases, so we
need to either add a new
==SKIP-VERSION==
5.2, 5.1, 5.0

or add more things to skipif.

-Hannes