I don't know why it's missing from the release, but the tests and the support certainly still is there. You could just clone the mediawiki/core repository from git if you need it right now: see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git for details or just run `git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git%60.

-- Matma Rex

On 11/15/2012 02:21 PM, Daniel Renfro wrote:

Is there a reason that the tests/ subdirectory (which holds unit-tests, etc.) is missing from the 1.20.0 release?

My team recently implemented unit-testing using the phpunit infrastructure that came with 1.18/1.19. I was told by various people on IRC that there would be support for phpunit with Mediawiki far into the future...is this a correct statement?

Your developer should be using git. The tarball release isn't meant for people developing on MediaWiki.

And, really, if you use git, your developers will have a chance to ensure that their changes will work in the next version of MediaWiki that you deploy before it is released.

If it is really necessary for the tests to be included, then please fill a bug at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/

Mark.