Please, make test available in github archive

[composer]

Please, make test available in github archive

[alcohol]

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.

[remicollet]

Why PHP provides its test suite ?
Why all projects (outside composer world) provide their test suite ?
Why PHP projects should be different ?

[alcohol]

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.

[remicollet]

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.

[alcohol]

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.

[remicollet]

Please, don't forget that NOT everyone is using composer ;)
And downstream we are still using archive tarball.

[alcohol]

Well I'm sorry, but it's 2015... :-)

But in that case, if you want the test suite, git clone is your friend.

[alcohol]

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?

[Seldaek]

My thought is I kinda don't mind either way. It makes a lot of people happy to trim down the zip so I'm ok doing it. It shouldn't take much away from others since a clone still ships everything.