Re: [Fofredux-devel] Simpletest results for todays snapshot

[Kevin <ke...@dr...>]

> On 5/22/06, Kevin <ke...@dr...> wrote:
>>
>> All these tests check strtotime() to make sure it can parse different
>> formats of RSS timestamps I've seen.
>>
>> You're using php 4.something, right?  These pass for me on php 5.0.x.
>> Odd.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kevin
>
> A few questions....
>
> Will these errors be fixed?

Yes.  It may be a while, I don't have a php4 install to test with.  I am
working on setting up UML so I can have alternate test environments to
play with.  (different php versions, different mysql version, etc)

> Should I continue to use simpletest on
> development snapshots?

Please do.  Our priority as devs should be to "not break the build".=20
Given php is interpreted, that really means: "all unit tests pass"

> Should we drop php4 support and only support
> php5 and beyond?

> I'd rather not drop php4 support since that's what I use (and Debian
> does not have php5 support yet in stable) but we are having a few
> issues due to php4 it sounds like.

From a coder standpoint, I would like nothing better.  Unfortunately, we'=
d
be excluding a large portion of our potential user community.

http://www.nexen.net/chiffres_cles/phpversion/php_stats_evolution_for_apr=
il_2006.php
http://www.nexen.net/chiffres_cles/phpversion/php_statistics_for_april_20=
06.php#majeure

According to this, php5 only has 7% of total php installs.


--=20
Kevin