Ben Peachey

This would be nice to have... will this be merged any time soon or do we need to use a fork?

Always requiring the latest composer format does mean that it is possible that (at least for a transgression period) older versions will not be supported... You could use local fixtures...

I'm not sure how much this adds to this discussion, but it is becoming more and more common to put "factory" functions in static class methods. There is, however, another...

:+1:

It might be a good idea to [pin this issue](https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/managing-your-work-with-issues-and-pull-requests/pinning-an-issue-to-your-repository) to give it more exposure... 

Hi, this is a friendly six months later ping!

This project is no longer being actively maintained by its original auther (see https://github.com/sstephenson/bats/issues/236). You might want to migrate to the community maintained fork [**bats-core**](https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core) and report your issue there.

@sunwei There isn't going to be any updates in this repo. I would advise you to move over to https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core, as that is where active development has moved after the...

You might have more luck getting an answer if you [ask your question on StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask). (And close your issue here)

This project is no longer being actively maintained by its original auther (see https://github.com/sstephenson/bats/issues/236). You might want to migrate to the community maintained fork [**bats-core**](https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core) and report your issue there.