Support for nightly

[johnbillion]

Related: #1 and comments on that issue.

• I've read the guidelines for Contributing to Roots Projects
• This request isn't a duplicate of an existing request
• This is not a personal support request that should be posted on the Roots Discourse community

Summary

In addition to latest which corresponds to the latest stable version of WordPress, I'd like to be able to specify roots/wordpress as a dependency that pulls in the latest nightly/trunk/master version of WordPress.

Motivation

This is something that's supported by install-wp-tests.sh via the WP_VERSION=nightly environment variable. I use it in the Travis CI build matrix of my plugins (along with a daily build on Travis) so that I can be alerted to problems caused by changes in WordPress trunk well in advance of the stable release.

https://github.com/johnbillion/query-monitor/blob/458bc4fd172116b628d51c91aea64d0062d48d27/.travis.yml#L23-L27

It would be great if roots/wordpress=nightly was a branch which was built daily from WordPress trunk/master, or from the nightly build.

[austinpray]

Yeah I can absolutely get this rolling. I don't even think it has to be automated

[austinpray]

@johnbillion so created two branches:

https://github.com/roots/wordpress/tree/nightly-git and https://github.com/roots/wordpress/tree/nightly-svn

https://packagist.org/packages/roots/wordpress#dev-nightly-git
https://packagist.org/packages/roots/wordpress#dev-nightly-svn

Can you try these out (with minimum-stability: dev temporarily) with both composer --prefer-dist and --prefer-source? If they work well for you I can tag nightly-git as nightly

[johnbillion]

Of course, because the roots/wordpress package doesn't need to change it'll just work. Nice.

I didn't need to specify minimum-stability: dev, and I'm not sure why. The Composer docs suggest that using a branch does require this, but who knows.

Installed with from both dist and source and all is good. Successfully got r44907 from core. Installing from source took ages but that's to be expected.

[austinpray]

Sweet, gonna tag. Hope this helps!

https://github.com/roots/wordpress/releases/tag/nightly

[johnbillion]

Interesting, that tag hasn't made its way through to Packagist. Are tags that don't look like valid version numbers allowed in Composer?

[johnbillion]

@austinpray Did you see my message above? It looks like Composer only supports tags that look like version numbers. Might need to stick to a branch and then use dev-nightly.

[QWp6t]

@johnbillion I'm not entirely sure how @austin has everything setup here, but I'll see if that's something I can do. He's out of town right now.

[austinpray]

@johnbillion so just delete the tags and rename branch nightly-git to nightly and it’s done?

[QWp6t]

Yeah, I can confirm that this works as expected...

  "require": {
    "php": ">=7.1",
    "composer/installers": "^1.4",
    "vlucas/phpdotenv": "^3.0.0",
    "oscarotero/env": "^1.1.0",
-   "roots/wordpress": "5.1.1",
+   "roots/wordpress": "dev-nightly-git",
    "roots/wp-config": "1.0.0",
    "roots/wp-password-bcrypt": "1.0.0"
  },

web/wp/wp-includes/version.php

/**
 * The WordPress version string
 *
 * @global string $wp_version
 */
$wp_version = '5.2-beta2-45163';

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/version.php#L11-L16

[johnbillion]

@johnbillion so just delete the tags and rename branch nightly-git to nightly and it’s done?

Yeah a nightly branch that points to the same reference as nightly-git would be good because that way roots/wordpress, wp-phpunit/wp-phpunit, and other packages that use the nightly branch convention can be pulled in with dev-nightly.

[austinpray]

There ya go! https://github.com/roots/wordpress/tree/nightly

[johnbillion]

Thanks! Working nicely.