On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch@wikimedia.org
wrote:
The problem here is that Ubuntu's upcoming 14.04 Trusty Tahr, as well as Debian unstable (sid), currently contain PHPUnit 3.6.10.[3][4] It seems to me that requiring our developers to manually install a different version of phpunit is instead going to make it even less likely for developers to write or run tests, and will make it that much more difficult to fix tests if they break.
Is there anything in 3.7 that we actually need? The problematic functions seem to just be additional asserts that could probably be worked around. Or is there any hope that Debian and/or Ubuntu will upgrade PHPUnit any time soon?[5]
What version is available via PEAR? Installing via that is no more manual than apt.
-Chad