[phpMyAdmin Developers] Composer and dependencies' version

[Hugues Peccatte]

Le dim. 20 sept. 2015 à 00:07, Hugues Peccatte <hugues.peccatte at gmail.com>
a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I just saw that in our composer.json, the dependencies in require-dev
> section are using ">=".
> Composer deals with version number, considering that projects are
> following semantic versioning (see http://semver.org/). And in this
> "standard", there is one important thing: "Given a version number
> MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the MAJOR version when you make incompatible
> API changes". That means that 4.8 (current version) of PHPUnit might not be
> compatible with 3.7, while an hypothetical 3.50 should be compatible. (In
> reality… 3.7.7 is the last, for now.)
> Knowing this, and to be sure that we won't have bad surprises, shouldn't
> we use "~3.7"? And so replace:
> *    "require-dev": {*
> *        "satooshi/php-coveralls": ">=0.6",*
> *        "phpunit/phpunit": ">=3.7",*
> *        "phpunit/phpunit-selenium": ">=1.2",*
> *        "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "2.*"*
> *    },*
> by
> *    "require-dev": {*
> *        "satooshi/php-coveralls": "~0.6",*
> *        "phpunit/phpunit": "~3.7",*
> *        "phpunit/phpunit-selenium": "~1.2",*
> *        "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "2.*"*
> *    },*
> ?
> And if we really want to use PHPUnit 4.*, so let's fill the version with
> "~4.8".
> All these dependencies are for dev, so this won't be a big deal if
> versions are not compatible, but this could leads to errors with PHPUnit
> the day it will have an incompatible version.
>
> What do you think about this?
>
> Thanks for your feedbacks,
> H.
>

I forgot the link about the "~":
https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/versions.md#tilde
The "^" may also be interesting. But I think that it is useless for us,
until we only limit version to minor version number and not to patch.

H.
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