Hi there!
There has been some discussion in the past about the Skeleton Application being too heavy-weight, so this proposal will be like a kick for those who would like to see it stipped down even further.
I opened a pull request at
https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication/pull/204 suggesting to use BDD in the skeleton application as a good practice.
I myself am just getting started with it, but I strongly believe that we should, as an elite group of developers, encourage good practices in the PHP ecosystem.
The idea is simple:
- SkeletonApplication -> BDD (features)
- Modules -> TDD (unit tests)
The idea is to be able to run some simple tests immediately after installation. There would be some advantages:
- Pushing forward PHP 5.4 (tests would be immediate with the embedded PHP server)
- We can troubleshoot problems on weird installations - we always had those for the skeleton, and since the skeleton is vital for ZF2, we'd reduce the number of "frustrating first-installs" by a lot
- We can automate things even further, by making one-command installers that do a self-test (much like `make`)
I kindly ask for one thing here: please keep the heavyweight/lightweight skeleton out of discussion here. That's eventually good for another thread.
Please let me know if I'm just having problems because of too much sun on my head yesterday :)
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