Local PHP Interpreters Ready for Static Install
So, having externals available via servers or docker containers or or or is neat...
I just want to run some code repair work against PHP 5.5 so that my repairs to make this chunk PHP5.5 and PHP7.x compatible are successful.
PHP is not a pay for licensing product-- can they be available to be downloaded as a static resource from somewhere official on JetBrains serversand run via the integrated server-- I can see why you wouldn't want to add every version to the IDE right off the bat-- but maybe it could be easier to integrate without installing every version on my local for PHPStorm to tie into.
For now I am going to hook into a "remote" PHP5.5 Docker container. But, it would be nice to just be able to install a PHP5.5 doodad contained within my IDE to be added or removed as I needed them.
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Hello,
We do not want to include any 3rd-party software into package because:
* package is huge already, adding another 100 MB won't do any good
* adding 3rd-party software means maintaining it - updates may be released way more often than PhpStorm updates and people won't be happy with that
* almost every developer has its own preferences on environment, version, patch, extensions etc etc - providing everything for everyone is literally impossible
* finally there are plenty of projects like homestead or even PhpStorm Workshop project that can be created right from PhpStorm > New Project menu which bring complete bundle of tools with a single console command - I really doubt it is necessary to bundle anything with PhpStorm
Hope this makes the picture clearer. :-) In no way we want to make things more complicated, it's just the amount of options is so high it's better to let people choose their thing.