Chris Weldon’s Blog

Sebastian Bergmann, lead developer of the PHPUnit testing framework, has decided to switch PHPUnit from subversion to Git. I wouldn’t normally have a problem with this, especially if he were to follow all of the other mainstream projects that choose to keep backwards-compatibility with Subversion by keeping Subversion and Git in sync. However, he’s chosen to go strictly the route of Git and not bother keeping a subversion repository in sync.

Why do I have such a significant problem with this? I don’t do anything in Git right now. Everything of mine is still in Subversion, and quite frankly, I intend to continue using Subversion for quite some time as it works well for my group and I’m too overwhelmed with learning other technologies to learn yet another source code control system.

So, please Sebastian, at least keep subversion around and sync it with Git. All of us Subversion developers that use your repository to fetch PHPUnit from there (instead of using the PHP un-best practices way of installing through PEAR) would greatly appreciate it.

Uncategorized PHP, phpunit, rant

The last year or so I have dabbled in C# .Net development, which was quite a bit different from PHP development. The .Net Framework is absolutely huge, the capabilities are endless, and the tools to help me develop faster far outnumber those of PHP. Furthermore, there are many within the community that work like true pragmatic developers (J.P. Boodhoo is one). These developers think about how best to organize your application and help to bring true automation to a project. Further, they work to eliminate conflict from workstation to workstation. In short, I’m talking about organization and management of code for rapid and agile development no matter who is on the team or how those team member’s workstations are setup. When moving back from .Net development to PHP, though, this type of mentality hasn’t quite made it.

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Uncategorized automation, code sniffer, continuous integration, PHP, phpUnderControl, phpunit