[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50640: [PHPUnit] Mark test as skipped instead of failing if GD extension is not availble

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#50640: [PHPUnit] Mark test as skipped instead of failing if GD extension is not
availble
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 Reporter:  ayeshrajans       |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Build/Test Tools  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch php8    |     Focuses:
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Comment (by johnbillion):

 I'm sorry but tests which are skipped when the environment doesn't meet
 the requirements are inherently unreliable. This is why the skipping was
 removed originally.

 IMO there should be a hard requirement on GD, Imagick, and any other
 extensions that are used within the tests, especially now we've got a
 local development environment available that ships in the repo. It should
 be able to provide the required extensions and always pass the
 corresponding tests.

 The `@requires` annotation in PHPUnit should be used for such tests, I'm
 not sure why it's not used in core anywhere.

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