[phpMyAdmin Developers] Composer and dependencies' version

[Marc Delisle]

Le 2015-09-19 18:56, Hugues Peccatte a écrit :
> Le dim. 20 sept. 2015 à 00:07, Hugues Peccatte
> <hugues.peccatte at gmail.com <mailto: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.

Using "~" would make sense.


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