How did you make the update of tools like f.i. Rector?

[cavo789]

Hello and thank you for phpqa!

Is it possible to retrieve somewhere in your docs (if any) how you proceed for updating tools?

I've just discovered phpqa and install it with docker pull. By running phpqa rector --version I got the version 0.10.21.

By running composer require rector/rector --dev in one of my project to get the very latest version then vendor/bin/rector --version, I got 25da77f059de1b8871789cce1eab46716ff5c5f8 (not really readable) but, in my composer.json, I can see the installed version is 0.12.x-dev.

And this is normal I think, you can't follow each version of each tools so fast... I'm neverthless well afraid about versions: by using phpqa, is there any risk to use very old versions of tools because (with all my respect) you've not yet find time to make the upgrade?

Can I rely on phpqa for tools that are often updated?

Many thanks.

[jakzal]

rector version

By using the --dev composer flag you installed a development version of rector. phpqa only uses stable releases (unless no stable release is available).

Nevertheless, the latest stable release of rector is 0.12.5. It appears that rector has dropped its rector-prefixed package that we use. rector/rector-prefixed was replaced by rector/rector.

For this reason, we need to update it in toolbox that's used to install packages on phpqa (fancy sending a PR? ;) ):

https://github.com/jakzal/toolbox/blob/415dc12f3ca5f8635d5fb78eab260781601ced72/resources/refactoring.json#L36

As soon as that's updated, a new toolbox release will be made and we'll also need to update this repository to use the new version of toolbox.

image updates

As for how often package versions are bumped in phpqa, that depends on the package. We use the latest stable version if possible. This means that each image will have the latest available version at the time of image creation. There's no need to make any manual updates in most cases.

• tags like latest, debian, alpine, php8.0, php8.0-alpine etc are updated daily
• tags like 1.61.0, 1.61.0-php8.0, 1.61.0-php8.0-alpine are updated once, when the tag is created
• tags like 1.61, 1.61-php8.0, 1.61-php8.0-alpine are updated each time the patch version of the image is bumped

We have automated creation of tags, and by now tested the setup, so nothing stops us from going one step further and start triggering new tags weekly.

[cavo789]

Many thanks! and yes, rector is making a lot of changes (not only newer versions but also structural changes (like the abandon of Docker or the use of a newer configuration file (no more .yml but .php) for instance)).

[jakzal]

jakzal/phpqa v1.61.1 was just released with the latest rector available (0.12.5).