tizzo and I talked after today's call. He's been frustrated by the ease with which using composer can cause things to break because even when we specify the version of mink or behat we want, their dependencies will be loaded from the latest, greatest, not always stable version.

We both like composer because it's easy to look at the code, but we can do that on GitHub, and having a successful experience setting up and running tests seems more immediately valuable. Thoughts?

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eliza411 CreditAttribution: eliza411 commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Closing this as won't fix. By using phar files, we lose the ability to get hinting in IDEs and to examine code. While phar files can work great for a quick set up when showing how to write feature files, they're not enough for people working on drupal.org testing.