* Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> [Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:27:26 -0700]:
There should be no need for multiple servers in any
case; web software
is pretty good about coexisting. ;)
Wouldn't a truly robust comparsion require two separate AMP's instead of
simple apache virtual hosts?
Multiple versions of MediaWiki can sit side by side in
separate
directories with no trouble. You can even run multiple versions of PHP
simply by setting them up as FastCGI applied to different paths.
Interesting, I didn't knew that it is achievable via FastCGI (I've used
only mod_php). Then, that might be enough. What about using different
versions of PHP?!
Really though, this thread has gotten extremely
unfocused; it's not
clear what's being proposed to begin with and we've wandered off to a
lot of confusion.
I believe than Dan wanted to compare the results of different SVN
snapshots execution at the function/methods level, too, not just the
final output. What can be used for that, XML RPC, perhaps?
We should probably start up a 'testing center'
page on
mediawiki.org
and begin by summarizing what we've already got -- then we can move on
to figuring out what else we need.
I remember that random syntax generators were used back in 90's for
testing purposes.
Sorry if my messages pollute the mail list, I'll try to post less often.
I am definitely not an expert, it's just interesting to read sometimes.
Dmitriy