[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50992: Consider removing the ability to alter the list of environment types

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#50992: Consider removing the ability to alter the list of environment types
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 Reporter:  johnbillion                 |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)                |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                      |   Milestone:  5.5.1
Component:  Bootstrap/Load              |     Version:  5.5
 Severity:  normal                      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch needs-dev-note  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by elrae):

 I'm not proposing we don't have a list of standard ones, I'm proposing we
 don't remove flexibility to change them. All plugins / hosts can have a
 switch statement and if they don't recognize my custom environment name,
 run the production mode. When you transfer hosts from WPEngine to another
 one they may or may not have the same environments, and they most
 definitely run different settings/code depending on that environment. What
 happens in the scenario above when I want my own environment variable so I
 can test debug on my plugin and run Yoast in production mode? I can't, I
 have to come up with my own new mechanism of defining an environment.
 That's where we are today, so what's different? Might as well rip this
 code out and tell all hosts to use the same environment names. If a
 developer calls their staging "stg" this was an intentional code level
 decision, and if they want the host they migrate to understand it they'll
 go into the code and change it. The worry here makes it seem as though
 changing these values is trivial or easily done in the admin; it's not.
 It's a developer choice and should be.

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