Paul M. Jones

In the current release of Solar (version 0.10.0) I use the .phpt test format, which is supported very well by Greg BeaverTomas V.V. Cox’s “pear run-tests” code. The .phpt testing strategy compares the output of a test script to an expected output string, and passes if the outputs match.
I noticed some time ago that [...]

The good news is that I’ve rolled the 0.10.0 release for Solar; the bad news is that it has a ton of changes, and that the release after this will also have large number of changes. Read on for change notes, especially regarding the new MVC architecture.

“The world is organized to persecute the diligent.”

Savant3 has its first stable release; Cyberlot has a Savant3_Filter for translation via gettext(); Antti Holvikari gets Savant3 working inside a PHP_Archive .phar file; Savant2 has a 2.4.2 release.

So I finally got around to putting up a custom header image for this blog; now it won’t look exactly like every other default installation of Wordpress. It’s a picture of Io in orbit above Jupiter, taken by the Cassini space probe on its way to Saturn. The original is here.
Although I didn’t [...]