Re: Proposal for a PHP-BASED Make facility

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Hector Santos <hsantos@isdg.net> wrote: > Folks, > > It has been suggested to me offlist that I should propose this idea on the > list. > > I've seem recent discussions about the multi-os complexities of the make > system for PHP, and there talk of using this new CMake system. > > Rather than YALTM (yet another language to master, we should have a > PHP-BASED make facility for the following reasons: It was already proposed and declined, because the main complexity is not actual "scripting" of build-process, but cross-platform differences. Autotools and CMake already have solutions for these, but if the build-systems is written from scratch we would have to "reinvent the wheel" > > - PHP is cross platform already making it possible to easily > and quickly to single source a PHP script based make system. > > - Everyone involved with PHP knows PHP so the scripts will be > maintained and enhanced by the community. > > - All that is needed with a source distribution or as a > separate distribution, is a PHPMAKE package that > might include a root folder: > > phpmake/bin minimum php binaries for the platform > i.e, php.exe, php5ts.dll for windows > > phpmake/scripts php scripts for the cross platform > make/build system > > The beauty of this is that PHP is already cross platform so everyone > involved with PHP at every OS have one thing in common, they know the PHP > language! So there would be no need to learn another MAKE language, i.e., > CMake, JavaScript, or some *nix make language, and it would offer an minimum > learning curve for improvements and enhancements by PHP contributors where > updates will immediately apply across the board for all platforms. > > It will get people like me more involved to improve the configuration and > automation of the PHP building process by developing cross platform > Interactive Console and/or GUI based frontends. > > -- > Hector Santos, CTO > Santronics Software, Inc. > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Alexey Zakhlestin http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/