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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 10:10:39 +0400
To: "Hector Santos" <hsantos@isdg.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for a PHP-BASED Make facility
From: indeyets@gmail.com ("Alexey Zakhlestin")

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.
>
>
>
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Alexey Zakhlestin
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