(02-14-2016, 05:51 PM)skunkbad Wrote: Is it really good that everyone has the same development environment? I can think of some reasons why it may not be good, like if there may be a problem with a specific version of PHP, or a specific operating system, yet everyone is developing on the same environment so they don't notice.
It's nice to have a common environment that makes it easy for developers to jump on board, but you would certainly want to setup your development environment according to the server environment you intend to use. For example, I like to keep the primary development target for my website in synch with the server I'm actually using, so I am less likely to use some PHP feature in development that doesn't work when I deploy to the server.
Further, doing CI4 development alongside active development and maintenance of a CI3 website means I need separate environments for each, especially since my site's web server doesn't have PHP 7 installed, yet.
