Using PHPUnit from .phar, allow Rector to guess the version?

[thePanz]

I am using phpunit with PHIVE, and it gets installed in tools/phpunit.phar

How can I configure Rector so that it can identify the phpunit version, and apply the rules accordingly?

I know that there is a withComposerBased(phpunit: true), but I do not have phpunit in my composer.json file

Any advice?

[TomasVotruba]

That's a tricky one. Either you'd have to add phar version somehow to Rector, or switch to phpunit as a package.
If you're not doing some weird magic, there is no reason to use phpunit as a composer package 👍
It's also easier to maintain and upgrade projects, as Composer checks versions for you.

With phar, you and everyone running tests on your project have to maintain correct version yourself.

[TomasVotruba]

Should be done automatically, like at the moment. Just with a new source you're using.

[thePanz]

I might have mistaken your message: should I try to provide a patch for that, following the ->withPhpUnitVersion(...)?

[TomasVotruba]

No. You can provide patch to existing method: withComposerBased(phpunit: true)
API is already pretty complex, I want to keep it simple.

[thePanz]

Ok, I see. Which would be a proper name for that source? Any advice from your side?

How do you foresee the possibility to specify the phpunit version?
Would you instead load/guess it from a phar file (which should be specified where it is residing on the filesystem)?

[TomasVotruba]

I have no idea how phar/phive version works.
Give it a shot and we'll take PR from there :)