Backport attribute management to 2.5

[jdecool]

Since it could be not trivial to migrate from PHPUnit 9 to 10, it could be very interesting to use attributes.

But it's only available in 3.0 which is compatible with PHPUnit, are you open to a PR to back port attribute mechanism to the 2.5 branch ?

[jakzal]

We would need to release 2.6 I guess.

Is it really not trivial to migrate PHPUnit? What are the main blockers? Is it the new event system?

If this is really what people want/need and you're happy to do the work (which we will release as 2.6), then I have nothing against it. As on 3.x we'd need to deprecate annotations on 2.6 though.

Sorry, I thought I'd just be doing bug fixes on 2.5 at this point, so I'd like to make sure I'm not going to bring whole lot of maintenance burden first 😂

[jdecool]

Is it really not trivial to migrate PHPUnit?

Big code base can be hard to migrate.

The main pain point I've encountered is about data providers that are becoming static.
But some code contains a lot of reference to $this

[jakzal]

Released as v2.6.0.

[jdecool]

Thanks