On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:59 AM, dan nessett<dnessett(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
If a developer has more system privileges than a
production admin, to what extent? Can we assume he has root access? If not, can we assume
he can get someone who has to do things like install PHPUnit? Can we assume the
availability of PERL or should we only assume PHP? Can we assume *AMP (e.g., LAMP, WAMP,
MAMP, XAMP)? Can we assume PEAR? Can the developer install into PEAR?
We should *try* to have no extra dependencies. Every extra dependency
means fewer people will be able to run the tests. If a reasonable
dependency would gain us a lot in some other way, that might be
acceptable, depending on what we actually gain from it.