Please allow PHP 8.2 in composer.json

[lolli42]

PHP 8.2 is beta now. It would be great if prophecy could unblock it in composer.json.

[alecpl]

Yes, please. I had to set composer platform.php to 8.1 to be able to install phpunit v9 (which depends on prophecy).

[ciaranmcnulty]

We can't really allow it until the new features are all supported or at least error with sensible messages; this will require someone to go through the various new features and make a list

You can use --ignore-platform-req=PHP with composer to try things out for now

[sbuerk]

Maybe the "<8.2" can be removed - so at least executing with PHP8.2 is possible. We are testing codebase with different php versions. Using --ignore-platform-req=PHP is a ugly workaround.

Can be said, that new PHP8.2 language features are not supported yet.

[lolli42]

Agreed.

Since prophecy is a direct dependency in phpunit 9, blocking PHP 8.2 here forces quite a few repositories to go with --ignore-platform-req=PHP+ in their CI when they want to add PHP 8.2 based runs now. Even if their tests don't use prophecy at all.

It would be great if composer.json could allow PHP 8.2 already, even if prophecy did not implement all features or fixes just yet.

What do you think?

[ciaranmcnulty]

We can't do that, there's a high probability that 8.3 will break prophecy (there hasn't really been a PHP minor that didn't break something)

I think teams testing with pre-release versions of PHP should be ok with adding an extra composer flag to their edge builds

[sbuerk]

Than change to <8.3 in the constraint.

Not agreeing on that. We start to test early to get things done and look how dependencies are doing, helping or reporting it if there are problems (if reasonable doable).

So, can we hope on a change with PHP8.2.0 release than at least "please" ?

[ciaranmcnulty]

There are zero service guarantees about when prophecy is going to support new PHP versions; it depends on the community and maintainers doing the work

The things that need to happen would be:

1. Open issues for all the PHP 8.2 changes that could impact prophecy
2. Fix them with test coverage
3. Do a release when all the issues are closed

All but 3 can be done without maintainer permissions

[lolli42]

Alright. Thanks for feedback!