Recommend to install PHPUnit from the .phar archive (without Composer)?

[alexislefebvre]

According to @wouterj:

You shouldn't require PHPunit as a dev dependency (and you've proofed with this issue again why you shouldn't).

Download the phpunit.phar and put it in a directory that's in your $PATH.

Source: symfony/symfony#18903 (comment)

But the documentation doesn't recommend to install PHPUnit without Composer: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/testing.html

Should the documentation mention that using phpunit.phar is the recommended way to use PHPUnit?

[JEDIBC]

I tend to disagree.

If phpunit is not a dependency, then you don't have \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase anymore and all your tests extends an abstract class which doesn't exist.

Furthermore, the IDE's won't be able to autocomplete the methods provided by PHPUnit.

[alexislefebvre]

@JEDIBC But you can't install PHPUnit with Composer and Symfony 3.1. Extending the class and autocomplete won't be available because the requirements will be broken.

[JEDIBC]

I know you can't but it is a temporary situation.

Documenting that phpunit shouldn't be installed as dev dependency is an error for me.

[alexislefebvre]

@JEDIBC : Please note that this issue is an open question. I was looking for a way to avoid users frustrated by broken dependencies, recommending the usage of the .phar is probably the simplest solution.

The #6628 PR may be rewritten as something like Due to a bug in […], PHPUnit can't be installed with Composer. Until the bug is fixed, PHPUnit can be installed through the .phar file.

[alexislefebvre]

It looks like the root problem has been fixed: phpspec/prophecy#275

[alexislefebvre]

The problem has been fixed, it's now possible to install Symfony 3.1 and PHPUnit 5.4:

$ composer require "symfony/symfony:3.1.*" "phpunit/phpunit:~5.4" --no-interaction --no-progress -vvv --profile
[…]
[146.4MB/15.16s] Writing lock file
[146.4MB/15.16s] Generating autoload files
[147.2MB/15.40s] Memory usage: 147.19MB (peak: 188.62MB), time: 15.4s

(use this command only during tests, PHPUnit should go in the require-dev section of composer.json)

[Glideh]

$ composer require --dev phpunit/phpunit

Worked fine for me thx @alexislefebvre