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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Tests repository
From: jani.taskinen@iki.fi (Jani Taskinen)

On 03/12/2010 12:29 PM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
> 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

Perhaps something like required min version is better.

Any ideas who has been working on the improved test stuff? Or was that 
just a dream?

--Jani