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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:39:10 +0300
Cc: jani.taskinen@iki.fi,
 Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>,
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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Tests repository
From: indeyets@gmail.com (Alexey Zakhlestin)


On 12.03.2010, at 22:23, Pierre Joye wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Alexey Zakhlestin =
<indeyets@gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>> On 12.03.2010, at 22:06, Pierre Joye wrote:
>>=20
>>> Many tests fail because they are written for a given platform, or =
even
>>> worst (from a portability point of view), only for a given
>>> configuration (library version, system version,etc.). And that's not
>>> about windows vs other, tests can work on a Debian/ubuntu version =
and
>>> fail on another.
>>=20
>> Well, these tests should just be removed/rewritten.
>> Php-tests should test php, not libraries
>=20
> I would be interested to know how can we test the file API without
> testing libc, for example.

see my reply to Stas.

The idea is to test things which we can guarantee. If our documentation =
says, that function does this or that, then we should check for it and =
wrap system-calls in such way, that our "file API" always does these =
things or fails in strict predictable manner.
And if we can't guarantee some behaviour then we should add =
corresponding note to documentation and we shouldn't add tests.=