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javiereguiluz opened this issue Jul 24, 2014 · 3 comments
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[DX] Contributing to the Symfony core could be easier #11465

javiereguiluz opened this issue Jul 24, 2014 · 3 comments
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@javiereguiluz
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I'm checking out the process of contributing to some popular open source projects and I've found rails/rails-dev-box, which explains itself very clearly:

This project automates the setup of a development environment for working on
Ruby on Rails itself. Use this virtual machine to work on a pull request with everything
ready to hack and run the test suites.

Please note this virtual machine is not designed to be used for Rails application
development.

I'd like to know your opinion about setting up something similar for Symfony or any other alternative that you may know to simplify the contribution to Symfony core.
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sstok commented Jul 24, 2014

Ruby on Rails requires some specific gems, some which use C so having a specialized build env is really useful and makes developing more friendly. Also you can't easily install multiple Ruby versions without using something like RVM.

But Symfony can almost run every where, you need at least PHP 5.3.3 and some extensions that are basically always available. And you can install a PHP version in any location like /opt/php5.5 or c:/server/php5.5 so there it is much easier.

So I wonder what would really be needed?
I know Windows can not run tests specific for Unix (namely Console) but we have Travis for that right?

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wcluijt commented Jul 24, 2014

This cookbook article contains a Vagrant virtual machine configuration that could potentially be used as a starting point: symfony/symfony-docs#2760

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I'm closing this issue because there is no much traction in it and people seem to be happy with the current way of collaborating with Symfony.

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