alt Hacker NewsI would actually reconsider adding phpunit as a dev dependency. It is a tool that runs independently from your project. Therefore it should not live in composer. I would recommend declaring the phar dependency with phive.
https://docs.phpunit.de/en/12.5/installation.html#phar-or-co...
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asimovDev • today at 8:10 AM
have a phpunit.xml or something where you can document what version of PHPUnit is required to run the tests for this library. Since there are often deprecations and breakages between major versions of PHPUnit where something gets removed and such
> I would recommend declaring the phar dependency with phive
+1. This eliminates a whole class of bugs in which you declared phpunit as a dev dependency but end up using a class that it brought in without declaring as a regular dependency. Without an external linter, you can’t really catch that until your production code doesn’t bring the class in and throws a fatal error.