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Dependency manager
To keep things simple, most development tools, for example PHP_CodeSniffer, are installed by Composer as development requirements and in some cases where installation via Composer is not possible, we use PHIVE.
PHIVE packages each tool with all its dependencies as a separate PHAR. This helps avoid dependency hell (which means that you cannot install or upgrade some tool as the tool's dependencies conflict with the dependencies on another library). It also allows running versions of tools that require a PHP version that is higher than the lowest allowed PHP version for this project.
Using PHIVE to install phpunit/phpcov
To support php version 7.4 and 8.2 in the tea extension, we are using PHIVE to install phpunit/phpcov. We need phpunit/phpcov in version 10 to support php 8.2. Our minimum php version 7.4 would prevent the installation with composer.
Note
To find more information about install and usage, please check out the documentation of PHIVE.