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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Proposal for a PHP-BASED Make facility
From: gloob@litio.org (Alejandro Leiva)


El 15/05/2008, a las 12:17, Johannes Schl=FCter escribi=F3:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 04:21 -0400, Hector Santos wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 00:49 -0400, Hector Santos wrote:
>>>>   - 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
>>>
>>> That's a hen and egg problem then - one would need PHP to build =20
>>> PHP and
>>> we don't have the infrastructure to provide binaries for all the
>>> platforms we support (there's more than Linux and Windows)
>>
>> That's what I thought too, but you still still have the same
>> (chicken/egg) issues of PHP being dependent on what OS the
>> AutoTools/CMake facility works on.
>>
>> The basic requirement of being able to port the minimal set of PHP =20=

>> files
>>  for an OS would still need to required in either case.
>>
>> If the porting is simpler for autotools/cmake than raw PHP, then I =20=

>> can
>> see that as a plus.
>
> Well the difference ist: For an own build system _we_ do to have it =20=

> our
> own and verify it on each platform, autotools/cmake are used by lots =20=

> of
> other projects with many many more contributors which keeps the things
> running. Additional most OS packagers add these tool to their packages
> themselves as they are essentially for compiling basically anything.
>
> Without autotools you can't compile many stuff PHP depends on on the
> platform so the autotools have to be ported anyways before PHP can be
> build there....


+1

Take other path is shoot yourself in the foot. Autotools and CMake are =20=

very mature and take care of many problems across differents =20
architectures.

Regards,
--
Alejandro Leiva