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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Tests repository
From: jani.taskinen@iki.fi (Jani Taskinen)

On 03/12/2010 08:08 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> 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
>
> Yes, but: some tests are version-dependant, some are not. And since we

That's why we'd need to add some section to select the minimum version 
required to run the test.

> have this "output match" testing paradigm, it would probably keep being
> this way. If you're going to have branches in that SVN, how it would be
> different from what we have now?

Considering what I said above about version check..why would you need 
branches in it? And what/how does it matter what the tests output if it 
needs to be same in any PHP version anyway..?

The word "repository" was bad choice. The idea is just to have shared 
tests. Perhaps that makes it more clear?

--Jani