Allow use of PHPCompatibilty:dev-develop

[GaryJones]

Installing the master branch / latest release of PHPCompatibilityWP will use PHPCompatibility ^9.0.

It would be useful to be able to install a (temporary) version of PHPCompatibilityWP that would use the dev-develop branch of PHPComapatibility, so that sniffs with some PHP 8 focus can be used.

What's the best way of providing that? (Either as a new branch here, or instructions in the readme on how users can adapt their project / global install)

[jrfnl]

@GaryJones I have a feeling I already answered this for you before ?

Either way, the answer hasn't changed:

composer config minimum-stability dev
composer require --dev phpcompatibility/php-compatibilitywp
composer require --dev phpcompatibility/php-compatibility:"dev-develop as 9.99.99"

The dev-develop as 9.99.99 aliases the develop branch of PHPCompatibility to a 9.x version which is within the allowed range for PHPCompatibilityWP.

We ourselves use the same principle to already run the tests against PHPCompatibility dev-develop:

• https://github.com/PHPCompatibility/PHPCompatibilityWP/blob/79966df2570451119bb6f44952044964f1c8c91b/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L65-L68
• https://github.com/PHPCompatibility/PHPCompatibilityWP/runs/6437683082?check_suite_focus=true

Note: once PHPCompatibility 10.0.0 has come out, this repo will get a 3.0.0 release based on PHPCompatibility 10.0.0.

[GaryJones]

I thought you had too, but I couldn't remember it :-)

Thank you!

[jrfnl]

@GaryJones No worries.

[daankortenbach]

tnx, needed this, happy ny