"Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" <bjorsch(a)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.
[...]
+1. This has been a problem in the past as well, and it's
especially frustrating to see that ancient browsers or com-
ponents no longer supported upstream receive attention,
while for a central development tool manual intervention is
needed for essentially syntactic sugar.
Tim