Please, make test available in github archive
remicollet opened this issue · comments
Please consider removing tests from .gitattributes.
This make downstream CI easier.
(really small)
See http://blog.remirepo.net/post/2014/08/12/Koschei-continuous-integration-of-PHP-stack-in-Fedora
I'm not sure I understand the rationale behind this? The aim of the export-ignore is to make the dist version as small as possible. If you want to run the test suite, you should just do an install from source.
Why PHP provides its test suite ?
Why all projects (outside composer world) provide their test suite ?
Why PHP projects should be different ?
That does not answer my question.
Also, this project does provide a test suite. But the test suite does not belong in a production release (such as dist). When you install PHP on your server, you don't get the PHP test suite, you get the pre-built binary, a production release. The same applies here.
So sorry, we have a different vision of upstream / downstream things.
I can live with that... (I already does for some other projects).
I just think that test, doc, license, should be part of the archive, as they are useful for users (and especially for downstream distribution).
I understand the goal of "minimal" size... not the way to achieve it.
But that is exactly why there are multiple ways to install a dependency. If you specify --prefer-source you will get everything. If you specify --prefer-dist, you will get a smaller release, more suitable for production.
Please, don't forget that NOT everyone is using composer ;)
And downstream we are still using archive tarball.
Well I'm sorry, but it's 2015... :-)
But in that case, if you want the test suite, git clone is your friend.
To be fair though, it's just one file, so if it would make everyone happy... I guess we can just include it.
/cc @Seldaek any thoughts on this?
