We should ensure that composer dependencies are present before running
phpunit and behat. We should also ensure that they match the versions in
the composer.lock file.
Doing so ensures that we have a consistency across the board amongst
testers. All testers are a specific commit will be using the same version
of composer.lock and the same version of the relevant tools.
The old style PEAR installation is incompatible with PHPUnit 4,
nobody was supposed to use PEAR any more - composer
is the only supported library installation method now.
Includes:
* update checker refactored to \core\update\ namespace
* plugininfo classes refactored to \core\plugininfo\ namespace
* plugin_manager renamed to core_plugin_manager
* redirect back to original page after plugin uninstall
* fixed assign subplugin uninstall
* move assign subplugins under the assignment in admin tree
* fixed plugininfo for all question related plugin types
* auth uninstall support
* added missing block dependencies
* added theme uninstall
* subplugin types are following the plugin on plugin overview page
* several performance improvements in plugin manager
* new warnigns when plugininfo are outdated or missing
* multiple fixes and other improvements
Improvements include:
* Alternative location might be useful when server administrator wants to maintain
a local copy of component cache instead of using shared $CFG->cachedir.
* Component caching is now enabled in behat tests which should improve performance.
* Standardised ignoring of component caching.
* Fixed debug mode in ABORT_AFTER_CONFIG scripts.
* General documentation improvements.
Includes:
* constants refactoring
* reworked db table init
* support for $CFG->debug = -1
* functional DB tests
* fixed $DB->get_indexes() to not throw exceptions when table does not exist
* fix handling of user passwords in test db
* add debug info to exception messages
* removed unnecessary PHP debug errors from mathslib
* fixed @error suppression in get_string
* fixed PHPUnit error handler setup
* added timezone info to default install
