Running Lando on GitHub Actions – Larry Garfield

Running Lando on GitHub Actions

At the $dayjob, I am working to have us adopt Lando as a development tool. Lando is a docker-compose abstraction layer that simplifies building standard development environments, such as a bog-standard LAMP stack, and is way easier than raw docker-compose for those cases.

I also wanted to be able to generate test coverage information as part of our Pull Request process. To be clear, test coverage is not the end-all, be-all of good tests, but it is still a useful metric, and can be a useful gate if used properly. Of course, generating test coverage requires running tests; and while most tests should be unit tests that do not require any services, not all are or can be, and many frameworks don’t make true unit tests as easy as they should. (cough) So that means building a full dev environment to run tests. There’s various tools for that, but I wanted to use GitHub Actions.

Larry
30 December 2022 – 4:33pm

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Upgrading PHP upgrades – Larry Garfield

Upgrading PHP upgrades

PHP 8.2 was released on 8 December, to much fanfare. And, as always, to much wailing and gnashing of teeth about how the PHP language is evolving too quickly and breaking everyone’s code. More specifically, it was the earlier, twin announcement that PHP 7.4 reached end-of-life on 28 November, as that has, somehow, forced everyone to suddenly rewrite their entire code base in a hurry.

And… while I sympathize with some of the complaints, I am once again left wondering “how?”

Continue reading this post on PeakD.

Larry
9 December 2022 – 3:50pm

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Xdebug Update: November 2022 – Derick Rethans

Xdebug Update: November 2022

London, UK

Tuesday, December 6th 2022, 09:06 GMT

In this monthly update I explain what happened with Xdebug development in this past month. These are normally published on the first Tuesday on or after the 5th of each month.

Patreon and GitHub supporters will get it earlier, around the first of each month.

You can become a patron or support me through GitHub Sponsors. I am currently 45% towards my $2,500 per month goal. If you are leading a team or company, then it is also possible to support Xdebug through a subscription.

In the last month, I spend 30 hours on Xdebug, with 24 hours funded. Sponsorships are declining, which makes it harder for me to dedicate time for maintenance and development.

Xdebug 3.2

I spend most of November fixing outstanding bugs for Xdebug 3.2, so that it is ready to be released when PHP 8.2.0 comes out at the start of December.

I also a fair amount of time triaging a crash bug with a segfault when code coverage in use, which is likely related to generators, but I haven’t managed to fully check out yet. I did also find a use-after-free error that I have now fixed.

As part of this, I have released Xdebug 3.1.6 to address a compressed file writing bug on Windows, and Xdebug 3.2.0RC2 so that you are able to test Xdebug 3.2 with PHP 8.2 with all the outstanding bugs addressed.

Once Xdebug 3.2 gets released next week, support for PHP 7 and Xdebug 3.1 (and lower) will no longer be available. This of course does not mean that older versions of Xdebug are no longer available for download to use with legacy PHP versions.

Xdebug Cloud

Xdebug Cloud is the Proxy As A Service platform to allow for debugging in more scenarios, where it is hard, or impossible, to have Xdebug make a connection to the IDE. It is continuing to operate as Beta release.

Previously Xdebug Cloud was only supported by PhpStorm, but the PHP Debug Adaptor for Visual Studio Code now also supports it.

Packages start at £49/month, and I have recently introduced a package for larger companies. This has a larger initial set of tokens, and discounted extra tokens.