Having slept on the discussion about people today expecting users each to have their own environment, I came to the something of an impasse. How many Linux installations run a package manager that allows individual users to install their own versions of Apache/PHP/Database/Git/Hg and so on. The whole point being that the machine has a consistent framework that everybody knows. Even adding extensions to PHP they will be added to the single version, which is why I expect extensions like 'composer' to be installed centrally so when I run it I know it's the same version that every other tech is using.
Now I have no problem with each user pulling their own clone of the code via Git or Hg and creating their own 'play area' to check out bugs and there is nothing to stop them running multiple copies of the PHP code against the central web services. They are testing in parallel with the live code in an identical environment. But obviously it would be safer to have a second mirror machine installed with the same version of distribution on which to test, and in an ideal world one would update the development machine, run all the test and ensure there are no problems before allowing the production machine to roll over. I did say ideal ;) Most sites will skip whole major versions of updates simply becuase their production system IS working ... Back to PEAR ... what happens if I simply install a copy of composer centrally and rename it 'PEAR'. composer.phar simply gets installed centrally and any new tech has access without having to install their own copy. As with Git/Hg users can have their own play areas USING composer, but to be honest from a safety point of view one knows that the version of composer being run has not been infected with some injection mechanism. We keep going on about validating the PHP code against malicious attack, but the whole framework is open to that? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
